[CentOS] CentOS5 and samba
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Apr 17 17:00:38 UTC 2010
Daniel Bird wrote:
> On 04/16/2010 04:23 PM, John Doe wrote:
>> From: Daniel Bird<dbird at sgul.ac.uk>
>>
>>> Setting locking = No in the globals of smb.conf
>>> fixed it.
>>>
>> Keep in mind that:
>> "Be careful about disabling locking either globally or in a specific
>> service, as lack of locking may result in data corruption. You
>> should never need to set this parameter."
>>
> Indeed, however smb locking still properly reports "this file is in use
> by...." etc. on the smb side. If fact it seems to have had little
> effect except for now properly reporting who is using the file instead
> of always reporting the file is in use and locked by the owner.
>
> Like I said, we still need to investigate more fully however the we see
> the issue on all NFS file systems when using the rpms from both the
> 3.0.33 CentOS and samba-3x series from RedHat 5.5. Like the OP, local
> file systems do not exhibit this issue.
>
Can't you samba-export at the source instead of the nfs mount? Even if it works
it seems like an inefficient way to do things.
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Les Mikesell
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