Problems running Samba from a NFS filesystem

[David Collier-Brown]

> "Bartick, Brett" wrote:
> We have a number of Samba servers installed and they seem to be
> running fairly flawlessly. On all our systems, we have installed the
> Samba code on a locally attached disk. On a new project I am working
> on, I would like to install the Samba executables on a network disk.

	You can share date that lives on an nfs-mounted 
	disk (at a performance cost) but please don't
	try to run samba from one: it needs non-nfs
	locking on the files in its lock directory.

	
>  tdb(/opt2/samba/private/secrets.tdb): tdb_reopen: failed to obtain
> active lock
> [2002/01/25 09:21:59, 0, pid=18533, effective(0, 0), real(0, 0)]
> tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(342)

--dave
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