SAMBA & ISAM Databases

Pepe Guimarães pg at moose-software.com
Tue Sep 14 17:23:43 GMT 2004


> Comand given to mount Samba share:
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o username=whatever,password=key //pepe/testdata 
> /testdata

Could you please give me the equivalent on CIFS?

I have never worked with it.


As regarding NFS any advice in what to look for "when testing heavily"?

TIA
Regards

José  Guimarães [ pg at moose-software.com ]
Director
Moose Software
http://www.moose-software.com


-----Mensaje original-----
De: Christopher R. Hertel [mailto:crh at ubiqx.mn.org] 
Enviado el: martes, 14 de septiembre de 2004 17:43
Para: Pepe Guimarães
CC: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
Asunto: Re: SAMBA & ISAM Databases


Have you tried using the CIFS vfs instead of smbfs?

Just a guess, but it may be worth trying.  If the Windows clients are 
seeing and respecting the locks then I have to assume that Samba is 
handling them correctly.  The different piece, then, is the client on
the 
Linux side.

Another test worth trying would be to mount the directory on the Linux
clients using NFS instead of SMB.  I'd test that configuration heavily 
before going live with it, but it would provide some interesting 
comparisons.

Chris -)-----

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:23:09AM +0200, Pepe Guimarães wrote:
>  I have a heterogeneous network with a R.H. Linux server running Samba

> 3.0.5 and various Win clients (from Win 98 to Win XP Pro). On a Samba 
> share I have an ISAM database (Access, FoxPro etc. like)
> that is being accessed by applications running on the Win clients and
by
> applications running in Linux.
> I have disabled "opplocks" in both Win9x clients and on the Samba
share.
> I have "mounted" the Samba share on the Linux server so that Linux
> applications are "pathed"
> to the share and accessing the data there.
> 
> The problem arises with locks. Files locked by the Win clients are 
> seeing as locked by Win clients but not by Linux and viceversa.
> 
> Any solution for this?
> I have "played" with options in Samba (level2 oplocks, veto oplocks, 
> locking, kernel oplocks, etc.) without any improvements. One thing 
> that I have clear is oplocks = no.
> 
> Other parameters we have tried:
>  
> To be more specific:
> Network name for Linux machine: pepe
> Name of Samba share (as seen by Win clients) : testdata Directory 
> where data is on linux machine : /u/testdata
>
> Thus data can be accessed by: //pepe/testdata
> 
> Mount point for Samba share in Linux: /
> 
> Comand given to mount Samba share:
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o username=whatever,password=key //pepe/testdata 
> /testdata
> 
> Checked mounting with:
> 
> mount
> 
> gives me : //pepe/testdata mounted on /testdata type smbfs (o)    <---
> By the way: what means the (o)?
> 
> Then I make the paths to access the data from Linux to be /testdata 
> and fron win clients to be //pepe/testdata
> 
> Can you see anything wrong?
> 
> Tests I am going to make are:
> 
> 1-Modify the name of the Samba share so that  "share name <> name 
> linux directory" 2-Mount the Samba share at another point rather than 
> / 3-Try to access the data from Linux with the same full path as Win
> clients. In the above case //pepe/testdata rather than /testdata
> 
> Finally:
>  shouldn't "posix locking = yes" in smb.conf give consistent locking 
> between SMB and posix (NFS or local) access?
>  
>  
> TIA
>  
> José  Guimarães [ pg at moose-software.com ]
> Director
> Moose Software
> http://www.moose-software.com <http://www.moose-software.com/>
>  
> 

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