[Samba] smb an NFS dir?

[Ben Ransom]

Both NFS server and SMB servers are RHEL 3, and yes, I'm running 
nfslock.  These are not LDAP or Winbind -- just using same usernames on 
both Win and Unix.  My Samba is 3.0.9.

I couldn't get any improvement with the nfs mount options you suggested -- 
thanks tho.  However, I found a solution in specifying 'posix locking = no' 
in smb.conf (for the nfs mounted share, not global).  With this, smb 
clients now connect fine to shares of NFS mounted file systems.  I have not 
looked fully into other possible side effects of using this parameter (my 
disclaimer :)  ).
-Ben Ransom


At 08:25 AM 5/25/2005 -0400, Tobias Bluhm wrote:
>What sort of box is your NFS server? If it's also RH or other Linux/Unix,
>could put samba on the NFS box and use msdfs on the main smb server to
>point to the NFS shares. You will cut down on network traffic as the data
>will now only make one trip.
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>Or perhaps you need to tweak your nfs mount options. These are the nfs
>options I had used for smb re-sharing of nfs:
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>from Tru64, RH9 and NetApp NFS servers -
>rw,hard,bg,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,sync,noac
>from WhiteBox EL 3 NFS server -
>rw,hard,bg,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,proto=udp,vers=3
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>All NFS servers used default export options. WBEL defaults to sync export.
>At one time long ago I had experimented with larger values for rsize &
>wsize, but saw no increase in performance.
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>toby bluhm
>philips medical systems, cleveland ohio
>tobias.bluhm at philips.com
>440-483-5323
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>Ben Ransom <bransom at ucdavis.edu>
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>I have /home nfs mounted from a NFS server to /home on a SMB server.  Can
>I
>make %H shares available from the SMB server?  Or, more specifically, I
>used to be able to with earlier versions of Linux and Samba, but have
>problems now after upgrading to RHEL 3 and Samba 3.0.  From the windows
>client, I can 'net use' the home share fine, but then cannot read or write
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>anything below that top level home/user directory.  I get Oplock errors.
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>If I change the user's dir to something non-nfs, everything works fine
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>Any help would be most appreciated,
>-Ben
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