share modes

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 11:06:59AM +0000, Martin Sapsed wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I used to have 
> 
>   share modes = no
> 
> on all my application shares as they were accessed for read-only. I
> particularly put this on my netlogon share after someone got an exclusive
> lock on part of the login script! I find with 2.2.2 that share modes is no
> longer allowed and I get smbstatus lock entries for loads of application
> stuff which people should be locking. What is the 2.2.2 equivalent which
> turns of all locking on a share. I've got 
> 
>   locking = no
> 
> but that doesn't seem to do the trick. Previous version was good old
> 1.9.18p10!

I have a fix for this that I'll be putting into 2.2 and HEAD
for the next release. Essentially, setting "share modes = no"
will turn off deny mode processing and always return "ok".

I'm tempted to only allow this on read only shares though....
What do you think ?

Jeremy.