[Samba] Samba using ADS

James Chavez james.chavez at sanmina-sci.com
Mon Dec 29 23:29:48 GMT 2008


Volker,
I scanned the lists and came across quite a few with the same issue I
had and you were in a few :). I have found no mention of negative impact
as of yet. Did find many posts asking if it would cause negative impact
but no definitive answer. I understand that does not mean that there
will be no issues.

Seems the solution is to not re export NFS file systems as you mentioned
in the posts. I was hoping not to run Samba off of this box to avoid
bogging it down but I may have to after all. Actually the box exporting
the NFS data is a NT4.0 domain member server and the Samba install has
no ADS support built in. I will have to recompile or rebuild I guess.

Thank you again.
James

On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 20:49 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:14:55PM -0700, James Chavez wrote:
> > My friend you are the man. If ever in Phoenix I owe you a beer. 
> > Do you know of any ramifications of altering this? As long as only one
> > person accesses the file at a time I should be OK I would think. The
> > smb.conf man page says that smbd keeps it's own locks and tries to match
> > these to posix locks for files opened by local or nfs access. At least I
> > understand it that way. I think I should be ok as these files will only
> > be accessed from these samba sessions.
> 
> As long as you don't have concurrent access to the same
> files from other NFS clients and/or Unix processes, you
> should be as ok as it is possible to be for re-exported NFS
> imports. Scan the mailing lists for my opinion on this
> matter :-)
> 
> Volker

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