[ale] file shares, locking and errors

[Giulio]

On Saturday 30 June 2007 09:05, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I am looking at an error likely brought on by the different
> filesystems fighting.
>
> server A has /home shared out with NFS (rw,no_root_squash,sync) to
> several servers in the LAN. User authentication is handled by NIS+.
>
> Server B is the NIS master. It also mounts /home from server A AND
> shares out /home using NFS and Samba.
>
> The people using the home dirs over NFS have no issues at all. But
> the poor folks stuck on a winders box hitting a group share from
> samba are getting "locked" error messages.
>
> I tested the following: As a user with read/write perms to the
> group folder I was able to create a new folder. In that folder I
> created a new text file (notepad).  I opened the file and wrote to
> it and then went to save it. I got an error message along the lines
> of "This file is locked by another process" and I had to use "Save
> As" and use the same name of the file. It worked (the file
> reflected the changes I made) but the error message is going to
> cause issues.
>
> On this Samba setup, kernel oplocks are off.
>
> Any ideas?

I saw the same behavior for windows clients on a samba share with 
ClamAV running. Updated ClamAV and problem went away.
Hope that helps (if you are running ClamAV).