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. --------------------------------------------------------------- This message and any attachments may contain Cypress (or its subsidiaries) confidential information. If it has been received in error, please advise the sender and immediately delete this message. ---------------------------------------------------------------