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

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 06:31:52PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> 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.

Essentially it is the fact that we have seen too many
problems with broken NFS locking implementations. If you can
make it work, fine, but Windows and thus Samba use byte
range locking a lot more than a typical Unix app does. So
you will hit potential problems with NFS locking much
quicker.

Volker
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