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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com