[Samba] Re: Samba hangs over nfs

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Jul 5 18:59:02 GMT 2006


Komal Shah wrote:
> Hello
> 
> 1. NFS export:
> /srv/nfsexp     127.0.0.1(rw)
> 
> 2. mount it:
> 127.0.0.1:/srv/nfsexp /srv/samba/nfs nfs rw,sync 0 0
> 
> 3. make a samba share and mount it via Windows:
> smb.conf:
> ...
> [nfstest]
>        path = /srv/samba
>        writable = yes
>        valid users = tr
> 
> Actual results:
> As soon as I start to read and write files below
> /srv/samba/nfs via Samba on Windows the connection hangs, I get read 
> timeout in Explorer

Likely your NFS server/client combo doesn't have functioning file locking.

-- Rex



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