[Gluster-users] Issue with Samba over Gluster

[Irshad Ahmed]

Can any1 please reply on this ?

Irshad

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Irshad Ahmed <irshad2005 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I am facing an issue with samba.
> When i expose a gluster volume using samba so my windows users can connect
> to it.
> My windows users normally use Microsoft Office and some use OpenOffice as
> they store all Excel/PPT/Word file in samba share.
> Users who use OpenOffice are able to work properly without any issues.
> But users who use Microsoft Office are not able to even open the files
> exposed by samba.
> When they try to open a file they get downloading file and then it timeouts
> and gives an error cannot read from source.
>
> This is my Gluster Server Config
>
> # Filestore Volume to be mounted
> volume gluster-filestore-data
>   type storage/posix
>   option directory /data/mpath2/filestore-data
> end-volume
>
> volume gluster-filestore-data-lock
>   type features/locks
>   subvolumes gluster-filestore-data
> end-volume
>
> volume gluster-filestore-data-brick
>   type performance/io-threads
>   option thread-count 16
>   subvolumes gluster-filestore-data-lock
> end-volume
>
> volume gluster-filestore-data-server
>   type protocol/server
>   option transport-type tcp
>   option transport.socket.listen-port 7001
>   option auth.addr.gluster-filestore-data-brick.allow 10.15.*
>   subvolumes gluster-filestore-data-brick
> end-volume
>
> Gluster Client Config
>
> volume gluster-filestore-data-1
>   type protocol/client
>   option transport-type tcp
>   option remote-host 10.15.6.10
>   option remote-port 7001
>   option remote-subvolume gluster-filestore-data-brick
> end-volume
>
> volume gluster-filestore-data-2
>   type protocol/client
>   option transport-type tcp
>   option remote-host 10.15.6.11
>   option remote-port 7001
>   option remote-subvolume gluster-filestore-data-brick
> end-volume
>
> volume replicate
>   type cluster/replicate
>   subvolumes gluster-filestore-data-1 gluster-filestore-data-2
> end-volume
>
> volume writebehind
>   type performance/write-behind
>   option cache-size 1MB
>   subvolumes replicate
> end-volume
>
> volume cache
>   type performance/io-cache
>   option cache-size 512MB
>   subvolumes writebehind
> end-volume
>
> I tested samba without gluster and it works fine so this is not a samba
> issue.
> I did some more testing to find out what happening with samba over gluster.
> I check the logs of samba and when i access files using MS Office i get
> oplock errors.
> I tried disabling oplock and MS Office application was able to open the
> file but in read-only mode but OpenOffice stopepd working now.
> If i enable oplocks everything started working other than MS Office.
> I dont see any kind of crash logs or any other logging in gluster logs.
>
> Any help please ????
>
> --
> Irshad Ahmed
>



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Irshad Ahmed