[Samba] Issues with FLOCK on NFS Share

[Ralph Boehme]

Howdy!

Am 6/30/20 um 2:37 PM schrieb Georg.Biberger--- via samba:
> We are using Samba 4.10.16 as a readonly file server on a linux box with SLES 12. All is working fine with our NAS NFS Shares. We are now trying to integrate new NFS Shares from an archive provider. We have some problems with samba not responding, when accessing files on these archive NFS shares.
> We have done some Samba-Debugging and found out, that the call to flock in source3/lib/system.c (kernel_flock) do not return and is blocking samba!

kernel oplocks = no

> Is it necessary to use file locking when using Samba as fileserver for readonly access with NFS shares?

Probably not.

-slow

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