smbmount & locking

[Dmitry Melekhov]

Urban Widmark wrote:

>On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Dmitry Melekhov wrote:
>
>>We want to do following- run clipper task by cron in dosemu
>>on smbfs directory, which add info from one dbf file to another.
>>But problem is that after dosemu exits lock on changed dbf file
>>still exists and others tasks can't read it.
>>How to solve this problem?
>>
>
>umount should cause smbfs to disconnect and that should make the server
>consider everything closed.
>
I understand. And yes, I can mount and umount when I start dosemu.
But may be there is more right way?

>
>>Samba 2.0.10, RedHat 6.2, kernel 2.2.19.
>>
>
>Note that smbfs doesn't actually implement locking, but I think any 
>messages you see are about some file still being open.
>
Yes, you are right.

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