[Samba] Samba on Debian with shares on nfs-filesystem

[Bernd Schubert]

Hello Volker,

On Tuesday 21 August 2007 17:57:16 Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 05:25:21PM +0200, Thomas Flaig wrote:
> > I would like to have some samba-shares on a nfs-filesystem.
>
> This is not supported. You should install Samba on the NFS
> server, and possibly redirect your users using MS-DFS.
>
> One potential workaround (no guarantees!) is to say "posix
> locking = no" on the relevant shares.

can you give more insights why it doesn't work?

In my previous group at university users can call vmware to get windows 
running on their linux desktops. Samba is used to provide roaming profiles 
and access to the users home directory. The hole setup is a bit tricky, but 
samba works as full domain controller, but is started as a user process as 
the user who also runs vmware. So no root rights, etc.
This also makes it impossible to run samba on the server, but smbd MUST be run 
on this very client system to serve the nfs share.

On debian Sarge samba-3.0.22 worked fine, also with "posix locking = no", on 
Etch windows has problems to store cached data on the end of the session 
unless "posix locking = no" is set.
So far we never understood what makes the difference. Samba is still the same 
version, and kernel is also still the same customized 2.6.20. Only the libc 
and other libraries did change.

Thanks,
Bernd

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Bernd Schubert
Q-Leap Networks GmbH