On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 14:14 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 02:08:27PM +0200, steve wrote: > > > This is a feature of the SMB protocol that a client can > > > explicitly request. It's called share modes. There is no > > > option where you can enable this for all open files. This > > > would not make sense, as very often a single client opens a > > > file more than once simultaneously. > > > > > > What is your exact use case for this feature? > > > > > School classes often have projects with files that many students will > > need to edit. We are surprised that there is no way for a user to find > > out if a file is already open. It causes chaos for us unless we do all > > our work in LibreOffice. > > Your clients are Linux?
A mix of Linux, xp and 7. > Well, indeed there is no good > support for locking files across applications. If your > clients are Windows then that should work fine, Windows > traditionally was better at that. No, it doesn't seem to work for us. Anyone can open e.g. a txt file with notepad or anything else, simultaneously. Between any combination of client. > > Linux programs like vim do it on their own, like many > editors do. But many programs don't do that well. That's why > version control systems like git and all the other ones > exist. Certainly overkill for 6-year-olds, but it allows > more parallel work. > > Also, nobody forces applications to keep files open while > they are edited. For example even some Windows native editor > (I don't remember which) loads files into memory and closes > the file until saving. > It's a pity that we'll have to work around it. Surely Samba knows if a file is open or not doesn't it? What's all this oplock stuff? It would be useful if we could have an option for smb.conf like: lock open files = Yes I realise that it's not for everybody. Would that be hard to implement? Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
