First off, I'll save the devs the trouble/time -- they'll say that
re-sharing an NFS-mounted resource with Samba is not supported and is
generally a bad idea. (Some might even go so far as to say a
"really bad idea"... ;-)
That said, I've done this successfully. Somewhat. It worked fine -
until we started putting real users on the system and adding groups
to fill out the security model. Then we discovered the "16
groups/user" hard limit built into NFS. That alone sunk the effort...
We saw a similar behavior -- users could not write/create new files,
but could generally do everything else. The failure to write/create
manifested as a permission denied error, and not a locking error,
however. If you are seeing a locking error, you may have a different problem.
Cheers,
-D
At 12:07 PM 5/24/2007, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:> Hi folks,
>
> After some more trial and error, I was able to get a bit further
> in the game with the permission issues I had (previous message was
> titled 'Samba permissions...) Now I'm able to get onto the system,
> browse and read/copy/delete files off of the shares. What I can't
> do is put stuff on because I get a locking error.
>
> The setup is as follows:
>
> Server 1 --> exports /storage/ftpusers
>
> Server 2 --> NFS mounts (autofs) the above export as /mnt/ftpusers
> At the same time, it also shares that mount through samba
>
> Server 3 (which is a WinBox) then accesses the above share.
>
>
> What I CAN do:
>
> From Server 3, I can go into network places, click on the samba
> share and get on it. I can browse everything that's on the share
> (which translates to everything that's on Server 1 in
> /storage/ftpusers/ ) I can copy files OFF of that share, and I can
> delete files off of that share.
>
> What I CANNOT do:
>
> From Server 3, I cannot PUT any files on that share. I get an
> error message that says:
>
> "Cannot copy testfile.txt: The process cannot access the file
> because another process has locked a portion of the file."
>
>
> I know with absolute certainty that there is no actual program
> trying to access the file on either Server 2 or Server 1, which
> leads me to believe that maybe NFS locking is having something to do with
it.
>Somewhere in the mounting of the NFS, or the share through samba,
>things get locked. What I don't understand is, why can I read,
>copy, AND delete from the share, but I can't PUT anything.
>
> The NFS mount is done with rw, as is the Samba share. I don't
> think it would've allowed me to delete files otherwise, but I could be
wrong.
>
> Anyone have any ideas why I'm getting locking issues? And which
> one is the culprit?
>
>
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