Re: [Samba] Question about Posix Locking and Windows XP/SP3 clients

2009-11-19 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 09:50:16AM -0800, john_debe...@notes.teradyne.com wrote: > Thanks again for the reply Ray. > > We are running a current version on the Netapp side and from what I can > tell, there is no tweaking we can do there. I'm looking into this with > RedHat and thus far they have no

Re: [Samba] Question about Posix Locking and Windows XP/SP3 clients

2009-11-19 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:37:56AM -0800, john_debe...@notes.teradyne.com wrote: > Hi Ray, > > Thanks for the reply. > > I'm trying to understand what the risk is of turning off the posix > locking for the [home] shares? I don't fully understand the issue and > further more, why this is now raisi

Re: [Samba] Question about Posix Locking and Windows XP/SP3 clients

2009-11-19 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:06:21AM -0800, Volker Lendecke wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:48:19AM -0500, john_debe...@notes.teradyne.com > wrote: > > > > Hi Volker, > > > > Thanks for the response. To clarify, we are not re-exporting via NFS but > > via Samba. We've run in this mode for seve

Re: [Samba] Question about Posix Locking and Windows XP/SP3 clients

2009-11-19 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:48:19AM -0500, john_debe...@notes.teradyne.com wrote: > > Hi Volker, > > Thanks for the response. To clarify, we are not re-exporting via NFS but > via Samba. We've run in this mode for several years, (samba server mounting > home dirs via automounter over NFS and shari

Re: [Samba] Question about Posix Locking and Windows XP/SP3 clients

2009-11-18 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 01:49:51PM -0500, john_debe...@notes.teradyne.com wrote: > We have SAMBA 3.0.33 running on RedHat 5. We are sharing home directories > to users via Samba using the [homes] share. The home directories reside on > a Netapp filer, (actually multiple), and are accessed by

[Samba] Question about Posix Locking and Windows XP/SP3 clients

2009-11-18 Thread John_DeBella
Hi, We have SAMBA 3.0.33 running on RedHat 5. We are sharing home directories to users via Samba using the [homes] share. The home directories reside on a Netapp filer, (actually multiple), and are accessed by the

[Samba] Question about Posix Locking and Windows XP/SP3 clients

2009-11-18 Thread John_DeBella
Hi, We have SAMBA 3.0.33 running on RedHat 5. We are sharing home directories to users via Samba using the [homes] share. The home directories reside on a Netapp filer, (actually multiple), and are accessed by the

[Samba] Question about Posix Locking and Windows XP/SP3 clients

2009-11-18 Thread John_DeBella
Hi, We have SAMBA 3.0.33 running on RedHat 5. We are sharing home directories to users via Samba using the [homes] share. The home directories reside on a Netapp filer, (actually multiple), and are accessed by the