[Samba] Oplocks question

[Daniel Bourque]

I keep an old RH7 VM running samba as a gateway to NFS shares for our 
older Mac boxes , because I was having problems with the ressource fork 
on newer implementations of samba. everything works perfect

with newer versions of samba, I experience lock issues accessing the 
same NFS shares. So I also have samba running on ever NFS servers, and 
drives are mapped directly to the server were the file system is locally 
mounted.

As Volker said, look into msfds. It will allow you to point your clients 
to one SMB server and access SMB shares off other servers in a 
transparent way.  You'll still need to install Samba on the NFS file 
servers you want to acesss.

hope this helps

Dan



Terry Haley wrote:
> So reading this, I assume that noone uses samba as a simple 
> authentication/gateway to network shares for windows machines. Since 
> you are limited to sharing local volumes on the PDC? How would I go 
> about setting up a passthrough for my machines to the actual 
> fileserver? Do I setup clients on the file server? do I have samba 
> point them with credentials to the file server?
>
> On Jun 9, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Volker Lendecke wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:59:11AM -0400, Terry Haley wrote:
>>> Hmm, so the thing would be to convert my NFS server to use samba? and
>>> setup  an smbfs on the PDC?
>>
>> No, you should not re-export *any* file system you imported
>> from some network file system. You should direct your
>> clients at the original file server holding the storage, if
>> necessary via msdfs redirects.
>>
>> Volker
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