[Samba] samba + nfs locking doesn't work
Vincenzo De Sanctis
vincenzo.desanctis at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 07:35:40 MST 2013
this is the case:
serverA [ CentOs 5.6 kernel 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.centos.plus, Samba ver. 3.5.21 ]
serverB [ CentOS 5.6 kernel 2.6.18-348.1.1.el5.centos.plus, Samba ver.
3.6.6-0.129.el5 ]
clientA [ WindowsXP ]
clientB [ WindowsXP ]
The serverA shares via Samba the resource [test]
[global]
workgroup = DMIT
netbios name = SAMBA
server string = DMIT domain server
interfaces = eth0
smb ports = 445
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
passdb backend = smbpasswd
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
log file = /var/log/samba/pc/%m.log
time server = Yes
logon script = logon.bat
logon path =
logon drive = M:
logon home = \\%L\%U
domain logons = yes
os level = 33
preferred master = yes
domain master = yes
local master = yes
printjob username = %M\%U
hide dot files = No[netlogon]
path = /etc/samba/netlogon
; max protocol = smb2
[test]
comment = test
path = /test
read only = no
writable = yes
create mode = 0775
force create mode = 0775
directory mode = 02775
force directory mode = 02775
public = no
oplocks = no
il serverB monta tramite client nfs la risorsa /test (mount
serverA:/test /test)
Queta e' il semplicissimo file di configurazione smb.conf di serverB:
[global]
workgroup = DMIT
domain master = no
domain logons = no
encrypt passwords = yes
security = server
password server = serverA
interfaces = eth0
smb ports = 445
[test]
comment = test
path = /test
read only = no
writable = yes
create mode = 0775
force create mode = 0775
directory mode = 02775
force directory mode = 02775
public = no
oplocks = no
Now on the clientA I open an excel2003 file from \\serverA\test and on
clientB i open the same file but from \\serverB\test (consider that
test is the same directory mounter from serverA via nfs)
This is what happens:
1) I can open without problem the file on clientA from \\serverA\test,
instead I have problem to open the the same file from \\serverB\test
(after 5min later it goes in timeout)
2) If I add "posix locking = no" on serverA and on serverB both
excel2003 files open without the locking mechanism.
3) I tried various combinations changing kernel oplocks, oplocks,
level2 oplocks, posix locking, locking, strict locking, nt acl support
but nothing changed.
4) I tried to open the same file from the same serverA (from clientA
and from clientB) without nfs and now the locking works well (both
from \\serverA\test)
The strange thing is that on my company newtwork there are many old
samba servers (samba 2.3) and they works well within nfs.
The proper way to use samba like a cluser is DFS insead of NFS, but
now I can not consider a migration or an upgrade to all the newtork,
so the best way at the moment is to use nfs, like the prevoiis
sysadmin did.
Have you had experience about this strange case?
Are there known bugs regarding the new samba versions + nfs ?
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Vincenzo De Sanctis
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