[Samba] Samba-2.2.3a configuration problem

Phil Stracchino alaric at babcom.com
Mon Mar 25 21:18:02 GMT 2002


On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:32:32PM -0800, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> I'm attempting to update a Slackware 7.0-based machine which is very 
> happily running Samba-2.2.0 to Samba-2.2.3a in order to get it to play 
> nicely with a Windows 2000 box.  However, I'm running into a problem at 
> configure time, because 2.2.3a steadfastly insists that there is no file 
> locking available on my machine.
> ...
> 
> Since Samba-2.2.0 finds file locks quite happily, can anyone tell me why 
> Samba-2.2.3a is failing?  Could this be occurring because I'm building on 
> an NFS-mounted filesystem?


Actually, answering my own question:  Yes, this IS because I was building 
on an NFS-mounted filesystem.  Beware.


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