[Gluster-users] Antw: Re: MS Office/Samba/Glusterfs/Centos

[Paul Robert Marino]

check this article its fairly strait forward http://ctdb.samba.org/samba.html
if you don't get this configured properly then your locking wouldn't work.

by the way oplocks need to be enabled based on an other post it looks
like you turned off all locking support.


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you using CTDB on a shared gluster volume instead of TDB on a local
> volume which is samba default.
>
> If not this may explain your issue because Samba stores  or at least did ate
> one time store spinlocks in the TDB for speed.
>
>
>
> -- Sent from my HP Pre3
>
> ________________________________
> On Jan 23, 2014 10:31, Adrian Valeanu <Adrian.Valeanu at idiada.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I try to replicate some data that resides on two CentOS servers. The
> replicated data should be shared using Samba to the users. It should be
> avoided that two users
> try to work on the same file using MS Office. If the users access the same
> file on one server, one of them is not able to modify the file. This is
> possible (and the normal operation)
> if one uses one server with Samba. I assumed that this kind of lock would be
> replicated too.
>
> I did not knew about  libgfapi and have not used it yesterday. I used the
> fuse mounted directory as data source for Samba.
>
> Yesterday night I updated both CentOS servers. They are CentOS 6.5 now. Now
> locking does not happen at all any more. After you mentioned libgfapi I
> found this:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/gluster-users@gluster.org/msg13033.html
>
> I managed to compile the module and switched to samba-glusterfs-vfs. But I
> still have no locking
> My Samba configuration looks like this:
> [glusterdata-vfs]
>    vfs object = glusterfs
>    glusterfs:volume = gv0
>    path = /
>    glusterfs:loglevel = 2
>    glusterfs:logfile = /var/log/samba/glusterdata-vfs.log
>
>    read only = no
>    browseable = yes
>    guest ok = no
>    printable = no
>    nt acl support = yes
>    acl map full control = yes
>
> Thank you for your attention.
>
>
>>>> Lalatendu Mohanty <lmohanty at redhat.com> 22.01.2014 16:10 >>>
>>
> On 01/22/2014 08:30 PM, Adrian Valeanu wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have set up glusterfs 3.4.2 over an 10Gig xfs filesystem on two CentOS 6
> servers. The gluster filesystem is shared through Samba on both servers.
> Replication is working like a charm but file locking is not. Is it possible
> to have file locking working in this configuration in an way that Microsoft
> Office 2010
> behaves like as if the files were on the same server? Does somebody have
> such an configuration?
> I tried a lot of the Samba configurations found on the mailing list but none
> showed the expected results.
>
>
> Are you using Samba with libgfapi? I am not sure if I understand your
> expectation on locking through Samba. Some more context would be nice.
>
> -Lala
>
> Thank you
>
>
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