lhecking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Daniel Bird writes:
> [...]
>> However, at the risk of being a pedant, that doesn't give us a
>> explanation as to why the same setup on CentOS & RHEL resulted in the
>> behavior we experienced. NFS mounts are surely not that uncommon on
>> samba servers and one would expect the locking mechanisms to cope with
>> that scenario. It surely does on our old Solaris box. We will be
>> investiaging this further since our migration is going to take a couple
>> of months and like JD pointed out in a previous post the no locking
>> option shouldn't be needed.
>
> I found these
> http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-1984
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2009-May/148403.html
> and we're in the situation described (NetApp filer with no CIFS license).
>
> Investigating one of our sites with a working CentOS5 samba server shows
> that they indeed have "posix locking = no" in smb.conf.
>
> The bit that is still unclear to me, however, is that RH apply this to all
> of RHEL3,4,5, whereas we don't see this problem under RHEL3.
>
What about the default options that have changed? Have you tried setting them
back to what worked with RHEL3? Be sure you are running nfsv3, udp, etc.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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