[Samba] Samba and NFS locking on Netapp filers ?

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 04:54:15PM +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote:
> I have troubles with some shares that are NFS mounted to a Netapp
> filer, if I enable locking on that share, the file cannot be opened
> by the windows client in write mode ( read only after a looong time )
>
> Anyone has the same problem , it seems to be a Netapp bug but
> they do not support samba at all :-) so I don't expect any answer
> from them.

We strongly advise against re-exporting NFS imports via
Samba, this is asking for trouble on many fronts. You're
seeing one symptom of this. It might be the NetApp box, it
might also be flaws in the NFS client implementation, who
knows. Please enable the CIFS exports directly on the NetApp
filer.

If for some reason you can't, you might try "posix locking
= no" on the samba server.

Volker
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