[Samba] hanging smbd(s) revisited

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Fermin Molina wrote:
>> Samba assumes posix locking semantics on the filesystem.
>> NFS locking is broken.  You might try setting
>> 'strict locking = no'.  If that doesn't work, you might
>> try 'posix locking = no' just as a test.
> 
> Well, but I think the problem isn't located in the locking 
> of NFS files; smbd daemons always get stalled doing a lock
> of "local" locking.tdb file. Then, must be broken the
> ext3 locking? In any case, maybe it's broken all locking
> system in linux kernel...

I understand the problem description.  I stand by my
suggestion.

> Regarding another subject, I cannot try those settings 
> because now that the information is 'local' to samba
> machine and not further mounted from the NFS server, there
> haven't been any problems...

OK.






cheers, jerry
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