Record locks from linux clients

Urban Widmark urban at teststation.com
Thu Oct 4 09:52:04 GMT 2001


On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ray Nixon wrote:

> The win98 clients send an SMBLock request and the server responds with an
> SMBLock reply, however this doesn't occur for Linux clients.
> Is SMBLock supported for Linux clients ?

What type of client? If smbfs, then no.

There are experimental kernel patches for adding locking to smbfs, but I
can't recommend them now (as I don't even use them myself).

/Urban





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