Hi We have an ERP system which uses windows clients to connect to a database shared over a SAMBA network. The database is like MS Access i.e. it does not serve data. To get sequential access, file locking is used. One of the clients runs from a Linux station with win4lin. The same database share is then accessed via NFS. The problem is that it looks like the files are not locked from the win4lin client side. I have mounted the drive over SAMBA instead of NFS to monitor the access with the samba status tool. And I have enabled Linux Locking for the win4lin session. I then noted the following: When the clients from the windows machine access the database and associated files they are locked DENY_NONE, DENY_WRITE, DENY_READ etc. However, the win4lin client only locks DENY_NONE. This prevents other clients from starting -don't know why. ALternatively, if I mount over NFS I don't have a clue what is going on, but I have noted the following: 1. Data corruption. 2. The win4lin client only shows the user logged into the ERP from the win4lin workstation. This lead me to believe that there is a locking problem. I am using RH6.2 with win4lin1.0 on the Desktop and RH7.0 on the server. How can I fix the locking problem? Is there a way of checking that locking works correctly? Can I use NFS or should I rather use SAMBA? -- AJ van Staden Cyber Seal Business and Industrial Information systems Pta Office Tel: +27 12 998 5674, Pta Office Fax: +27 12 998 0249, Cell: +27 82 927 5513 _______________________________________________ Win4Lin-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users
