[Samba] Samba with NFS

Server Gremlin servergremlin at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 15:19:16 GMT 2007


David Harfst wrote:
> We're having a problem with a combination of NFS and Samba that I'm hoping someone here has seen before and knows the solution for.
>
> In this case, the Samba server is an NFS client, and the Samba share is actually an NFS mount to an NFS server.
>
> The problem we see is when a Windows client tries to open a file on the Samba share, the application hangs, and eventually comes back saying something to the effect that it couldn't open the file.  Doesn't matter whether the application is notepad, Word, Excel, etc.
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> Windows client is XP SP 2
>
> Samba server/NFS client - tried a couple of different systems, both show the same symptoms:
>   Fedora Core release 5, Samba 3.0.24-7.FC5, nfs-utils-lib-1.0.8.4.FC5, kernel: 2.6.20-1.2320.fc5
>   Fedora Core release 2, Samba 3.0.7-2.FC2, nfs-utils-lib-1.0.6-22, kernel: 2.6.11-7.1smp
>  
> NFS Server
>   Red Hat Enterprise ES release 4 update 5, nfs-utils-lib-1.0.6-8, kernel: 2.6.9-4.ELsmp
>
> We've been doing this for years using a different NFS server.  We've recently upgrade to new hardware and OS on this NFS server, and this has been a problem ever since.
>  
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks, in advance.
>
>
>
> David Harfst
> Senior Systems Engineer - Information Systems
> CMS, Inc.   - http://www.cmsrtp.com
>   
Have you tried dropping the firewall on the Red Hat 4 NFS server to see 
if the problem goes away?


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