Problems running Samba from a NFS filesystem

[Gerald Carter]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Bartick, Brett wrote:

> Hi!
>
> 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.
> For some unknown reason, I can't get the Samba to work when attached
> to my network disk. I have the same code installed on the local disk,
> and Samba works fine. I am getting the following error message logged
> in the smbd log file.

tdb's make extensive use of mmap() which requires functional, byte range
locking.  You don't get this over NFS.  Define "lock directory" (and the
private/) to be a local directory and things should be ok.








chau, jerry
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