Sadly we've had no success with Gluster and Microsoft Office. Current failures for us have been: * Windows client hitting Samba+Gluster (not libgfapi) and MS Word and Excel - not working * Mac client hitting Gluster's native NFSv3 wth MS Word and Excel - not working Microsoft Office (in particular Word and Excel) does all sorts of strange file locking and temporary file placement/renaming to try and deal with corporate users who insist on using Office as a multi-user tool for documents (despite every sysadmin's desperate plea to realise how silly that is). The end result is pretty much chaos for any clustered file system. We've migrated a fair chunk of our business to Google Apps for Business (handles multi-user perfectly), but for legacy Microsoft stuff we have a completely separate NAS that we use where admin and producer types store their Office documents. It's worth noting too that Adobe Photoshop on Windows (not the Mac version) has the same problem when opening JPG files only. It looks like Photoshop's JPG library is different to their other file IO libraries, and doesn't work with GlusterFS. Moving our Photoshop users to Mac has solved that problem for us. -Dan ---------------- Dan Mons R&D SysAdmin Unbreaker of broken things Cutting Edge http://cuttingedge.com.au On 23 January 2014 01:10, Lalatendu Mohanty <lmohanty@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/22/2014 08:30 PM, Adrian Valeanu wrote: > > Hi, > I have set up glusterfs 3.4.2 over an 10Gig xfs filesystem on two CentOS 6 > servers. The gluster filesystem is shared through Samba on both servers. > Replication is working like a charm but file locking is not. Is it possible > to have file locking working in this configuration in an way that Microsoft > Office 2010 > behaves like as if the files were on the same server? Does somebody have > such an configuration? > I tried a lot of the Samba configurations found on the mailing list but none > showed the expected results. > > > Are you using Samba with libgfapi? I am not sure if I understand your > expectation on locking through Samba. Some more context would be nice. > > -Lala > > Thank you > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
