lhecking at users.sourceforge.net 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 at gmail.com