On March 21, 2003 04:59 pm, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I just confirmed... while locking seems to work if two instances of > > Visual Foxpro are running on Wine on the same machine, it DOES NOT work > > over the network. I had one instance on Wine and one instance on WinNT. > > Both instances were interacting with the same table on a third machine. > > The two instances of Visual FoxPro did not respect each other's locks. > > Bummer. Big bummer. > > AFAIK the Samba filesystem doesn't support locking.
Only the smbfs bit (which of course is not actually Samba) > Locks should work > across the network with NFS, but of course from a Windows machine that > might be a problem. I'm afraid we can't do much in Wine, this will > require fixing smbfs. The Samba server does the right thing, so host the file on unix/linux. > > > So... chances of this ever getting implemented on Wine are, in your > > opinion, pretty slim? If so that's too bad, because I saw a great > > possibility of porting lots of legacy business apps over to Linux using > > Wine. There are, as I said before, a ton of apps out there built on > > desktop database software... bummer. > > Actually if you mount with the right options and set the right > permissions on the file, mandatory locking should work. That's the > theory though, I haven't tested it... -- Bill Medland ACCPAC International, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corporate: www.accpac.com Hosted Services: www.accpaconline.com
