RESOLVED: (sorta) Re: [Samba] Oplocks question

[Remy Zandwijk]

Toby Bluhm wrote:
> Terry Haley wrote:
>> Actually Dan that helps a lot. It tells me the amount of work and 
>> effort it takes to bend this application in order to fit a mold it was 
>> not intended for. In the end, I decided to bite the bullet and make my 
>> PDC double as my primary file server. 45 mins of swapping an FC-nic, 
>> remapping the lvm's and reconfiguring the smb.conf in order to make 
>> this a non-issue and prevent more complexity proliferation is well 
>> worth it. It's a shame it doesn't handle remote file systems more 
>> elegantly.
>>
> 
> 
> Here are the steps:
> 
> configure the 2nd samba server as a client, join it to the domain, add a 
> dfs enabled share, dfs enable the PDC, create the filesystem link(s), done.
> 
> Should take 5 minutes.


True. But keep in mind that Mac OS X machines won't follow DFS links. At least 
until 10.5.6.

-Remy