[Samba] hanging smbd(s) revisited

[Matt Johnson]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

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> Fermin Molina wrote:
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>> I don't know exactly, but when I moved the information
>> from NFS servers to local storage, the problems disappeared.
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> 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.

We'll give that a shot -- we're still doing fs->nfs->samba sharing. Is 
this going to incur a slowdown?

Cheers

Matt

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