On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:15:23PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> What kind of lock would the NFS client issue? > Linux locks : /* F_RDLCK, F_WRLCK, F_UNLCK */
These are byte range locks, not deny modes. > Imagine an NFS application that has to lock a file to inform others that > the file is already used and should not be written (F_WRLCK). > In samba server, there is no check/no error reported to the SMB clients > that the file is locked. You're confusing byte range locks here with deny modes. Please go and research the difference between the two. > So a samba client can always access/write the file that is already used > and locked by an NFS client. As can any POSIX client. But if the client *checks* for locks before hand then they will see the NFS locks. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
