I have a problem with file locking on different platforms. System environment: Samba Server 2.2.3.a on Red Hat 7.3 Some Windows 2000 Clients with MS-Office 2000 and OpenOffice 1.0.1 Some Red Hat 8.0 Clients with Open Office 1.0.1
The Linux Clients mounts the Samba Shares with smbmount:
smbmount //<Server/shares> $HOME/path -o credentials=<file>,ip=<ip>,debug=0,workgroup=<name>,port=139,iocharset=8859-15
Working only with Windows clients is ok. If they open a document, the file is locked for other users in network.
On Samba Server Status (Swat) open files are visible:
Sharing-DenyNone, Read/Write, No Oplock (Winword), Excl.+Batch Oplock (OOWriter)
Working with OOWriter on Linux Workstation shows the following: Sharing-DenyNone, Read/Write, No Oplock (OOWriter)
In practice file locking by opening the same document (on Samba-Server) between Winword and OpenOffice is working good.
Working with OO on both sides (Linux and Windows) is also ok.
But there is no file locking if someone opens a document with Word on Windows and then with OO on Linux or the other way round!
/proc/locks on SERVER shows the following by opening a document: Winword (Windows Client): POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 12115 08:02:162885 ... POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 12115 08:02:162885 ... POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 12115 08:02:162885 ... OOwriter (Windows Client): LEASE MANDATORY WRITE 12115 08:02:162885 ... FLOCK MSNFS READ 12115 08:02:162885 ... OOWriter (Linux Client): No entry !!!!!
Here I found an entry in the local /proc/locks on the Linux CLIENT (!): OOWriter (Linux Client): POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 2251 00:0e:19 ...
Is this a (logical) bug? Opening an with smbmount mounted file on a samba share, locks only in local filesystem, but not files on server?
Is there another way to work with inhomogenous environments?
Thank you Andreas
Appendix: An extract from my smb.conf.
[global]
workgroup = XY
netbios name = BS01
server string = XY
encrypt passwords = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 100
deadtime = 60
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
show add printer wizard = No
character set = ISO8859-15
logon path =
logon home =
domain logons = Yes
os level = 65
preferred master = True
domain master = True
dns proxy = No
wins proxy = Yes
wins support = Yes
valid chars = ä:Ä ü:Ü ö:Ö ß '
hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127.
strict locking = Yes
[XY]
path = /xy
valid users = …
read only = No
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
browseable = No[Public]
path = /xy/public
valid users = @…
read only = No
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
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