On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:49:33PM -0800, Jon Forrest wrote: > I have a Sun 7310 storage server. This is > running Solaris 10 but it's self-contained > and I can't login to it or run Samba on it. > I manage it with a web interface. > > I have a CentOS 5.3 machine that mounts > a bunch of file systems via NFS from the > Sun server. This works fine. I installed > Samba 3.4.5 on the CentOS machine and > configured it to share some of the directories > that are actually NFS mounts from the Sun > server. I'm able to map these directories > from both Windows XP and Windows 7. > > I'm seeing several problems: > > 1) Accessing the mapped directories from > Windows when running Microsoft Office apps is > extremely slow. I don't have any exact numbers > but let's say the speed is unusable. Ironically, > other programs, such as 'vim' and 'notepad' > don't have this speed problem when accessing > the same shares. > > 2) Again, using Microsoft Office apps, Windows XP > machines see files as read-only. Windows 7 works > fine on the same files. > > The Sun has a non-Samba CIFS implementation > but it's non-intuitive to set up so I haven't > tried it. I'm wondering if what I describe > should work. > > Here's the smb.conf configuration for the share: > > [bgroup] > > valid users = bgroup > path = /home/bgroup > public = no > writeable = yes > browseable = no > create mask = 012 > create mode = 0660 > directory mode = 0770 > > Any comments or suggestions? > > Cordially,
First of all, you really don't want to re-export NFS mounts via Samba. Secondly, if you absolutely must do it, I recommend the following settings: [global] # your other options here... oplocks = No level2 oplocks = No On certain shares, you may want to set: posix locking = No Ray -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba