samba - Aug 2010 - Doubt on Samba and NFS configuration

Hi Team,

I have doubt on samba and nfs co-existence on a server. I have read couple of
posts in the internet and found that nfs and samba doesn't understand file
locking mechanisms of each other.

Following is my requirement

I have a vxfs filesystem /interfaces which is exported to 3 unix servers using
nfs

Now the customer, wants to export /interfaces/outbound to 4 windows servers
using SAMBA.

Following is the NFS and SAMBA version

  CIFS-Server           A.02.02.01     HP CIFS Server (Samba) File and Print
Services
  NFS                   B.11.23        ONC/NFS; Network-File System,Information
Services,Utilities

Can we export /interfaces/outbound using SAMBA? Are there any known issues with
NFS and SAMBA

Thank you,

Ravi.

At Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:58:07 +0000 "Gangiredla, Venkata Ravi Shankar"
<ravishankar.g at hp.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Team,
> 
> I have doubt on samba and nfs co-existence on a server. I have read
> couple of posts in the internet and found that nfs and samba doesn't
> understand file locking mechanisms of each other.
Samba and nfs can co-exist on *a* server without problems. There is no
problem for a given machine exporting the same file system with both
samba and nfs.  The problems are when a given machine imports with one
service (is in the 'client' role) and exports with the other (is in the
'server' role).
> 
> Following is my requirement
> 
> I have a vxfs filesystem /interfaces which is exported to 3 unix
> servers using nfs
> 
> Now the customer, wants to export /interfaces/outbound to 4 windows
> servers using SAMBA.
This should not be a problem, at least as I understand what you are
doing (it is a little unclear the way you have stated things).

I am assuming that you have some server 'master', which mounts
/interfaces as a local (to 'master'), and it exports this to three unix
servers ('unix_a', 'unix_b', and 'unix_c'), that is on
master in
/etc/exports you have something like:

/interfaces unix_a(rw),unix_b(rw),unix_c(rw)

and now you want to install samba on master and have a block like:

[outbound]
	path = /interfaces/outbound
	
in master's /etc/samba/smb.conf


> 
> Following is the NFS and SAMBA version
> 
>   CIFS-Server           A.02.02.01     HP CIFS Server (Samba) File and
Print Services
>   NFS                   B.11.23        ONC/NFS; Network-File
System,Information Services,Utilities
> 
> Can we export /interfaces/outbound using SAMBA? Are there any known
> issues with NFS and SAMBA
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Ravi.
> 
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