[Samba] smb + nfs lock problem

[Jehan PROCACCIA]

If found a solution , but I'am not sure of the consequences ...

I added in  /etc/samba/smb.conf

          [global]

          lock directory = /var/lock/samba 

          locking = yes 

          strict locking = no 

Is it the recommended solution ?



Jehan PROCACCIA wrote:
> Hello,
> whenever I try to copy a new file from windowsXP (2K also) to a samba 
> share which is NFS mounted on the samba server, I get an error on the 
> client: "impossible to copy file.txt: the process cannot access the 
> file because an other process has locked a part of it" (my english 
> translation of the french message I have !)
> It worked fine before (3weeks ago) and I think that problem appeared 
> when I upgraded my NFS server, because the samba server running 
> directly on that NFS server work fine (no lock pb) ,
>
> I tried looking through samba locking mechanisms, but I'am a bit lost 
> in there:
> http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/locking.html
> I blindly tested
>
> [homes]
> veto oplock files = /filename.htm/*.txt/
> or
> [global]
> kernel oplocks = yes
>
> with no success !
> Do you have an idea ? is it a samba problem ? an NFS problem ? a 
> windows client problem ?
> I've got undred of users "locked" :-(
> Thanks .
>
>
> PS:
>
> Here's my samba server system config:
> bash-3.00# cat /etc/redhat-release
> Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz)
> bash-3.00# rpm -qa | grep samba
> samba-common-3.0.23a-1.fc4.1
> samba-client-3.0.23a-1.fc4.1
> samba-3.0.23a-1.fc4.1
> bash-3.00# uname -a
> Linux fpublic.int-evry.fr 2.6.17-1.2147_FC4.vs2.0.2.2 #1 Thu Sep 14 
> 22:30:50 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> here's the NFS server config on wich samba works fine (local disk 
> access !)
>
> $ cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
> nfs-utils-1.0.6-70.EL4
> system-config-nfs-1.2.8-1
> nfs-utils-lib-1.0.6-3
> samba-common-3.0.10-1.4E.9
> system-config-samba-1.2.21-1
> samba-3.0.10-1.4E.9
> samba-client-3.0.10-1.4E.9
>