Hi all, I have a Samba system running on a standard purchased SuSE Linux 9.3 box. I want to transfer the data to a new Samba running on a standard Suse Linux 10.0 purchased box version, on a x86_64 cluster platform. The new configuration is as follows: I have one central SuSE Linux 10.0 server cluster for all data. It exports as NFS-Server several shares to a number of NFS-Clients. (The NFS-Clinets will also be clusters with heartbeat; one for Samba, another for Apache, another for ERP). At present, the Samba server, for eg. receives a NFS-Share from the central Data-Cluster NFS-Server for a windows network over the NFS-Share /Data/Samba. (Other NFS-Clients each gets its own share eg. /Data/HTTP for the Web-Server and /Data/ERP for the ERP-Server). Data-Cluster (2 x DRBD Servers) NFS Shares Export of DRBD primary device | /Data | v |--1GB-IP--| | | | |_________________________________ | | v v NFS-Shares Import (/Data/Samba) (Other Servers) NFS-Server Cluster (/Data/...) (w/Samba) SMB-Shares ^ | v |--100MB-IP--| ^ | v Windows Network I use the Kernel NFS-Server of the uname -a: Linux L10-CL2 2.6.13-15-default #1 Tue Sep 13 14:56:15 UTC 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux The Data-Cluster is a DRBD 1GB IP block device replication system. QUESTION: If I copy the data files from the present active and functioning Samba system to the new system, what happens to the file rights from a windows perspective? Is there anything inside the windows files or bits that has to do with rights, that can cause read/write right conflicts on the new system for Windows. On the new test system, at present I have the problem that I can not read or write to Windows Office products (MS0) over SMB shares in the Windows Network on the Samba Server, neither can I read or write with OpenOffice2 (OO2) products directly on the NFS-Server shares. On the Samba side in the windows network, a username for 'Workgroup' is asked where all passwords are rejected (even though the workgroup has been named as eg. "ABC" in the new Samba server), and I get a read only error on the NFS side on the NFS-Client. All that prohibit even opening the files. Only Windows Office product files are effected; strange? All other files and directories can be created, deleted, edited and moved. I can also create new office files with OO2, but not edit them afterwards; the same problem. I have isolated it to not being able to read or write with MS0 on Samba shares and OO2 programmes on the NFS-Server directly, only to windows office files. If I change the *.doc file names to *.txt, I can then edit them and save them as well; even if the office specific formats are corrupted, but at least I can edit them then. Otherwise the NFS shares and the SMB shares behave normally. I have communicated with the NFSv4 group, and there does not seem to be a NFS problem in itself. Any ideas where to look? :-) Al