Lock problem

[Pietro]

Thanks Urban, your help has been very usefull. I see much more clear now.
Unfortunately, i can't use the experimental patch because the system is 
in production and i can't test it with the patch. :(

By the way, dosemu makes de locks request because it works with samba 
and Novell, but i don't want to load and configure drivers in the tiny 
dos memory.

May be i can use nfs with nfslock to do the trick.

Of course, using locks with smbfs is the cleanest way to work and i want 
the patch to test it in other applications.


Thanks again

Pietro Pesci-Feltri C.

>  We have some database dos programs runing under Linux with dosemu on 
>> the client side connected to Linux server runing samba, and want to do 
>> register locks in a local directory mounted with smbmount. In samba 2.0 
>> this was not possible (files become corrupted).
>> Can samba 2.2 do the trick?. We don't want to use micro$oft lan manager 
>> for DOS.
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>Samba is not involved here, so 2.0 or 2.2 makes no difference. The problem
>you are seeing is that smbfs, a kernel filesystem, does not implement file
>locking. The result is that the linux client (dosemu) thinks it gets the
>requested lock but the server has not granted that lock.
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>I also don't know if running programs in dosemu will make the lock
>requests reach smbfs or not. If it does not then changing smbfs will not
>help.
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>There are some experimental patches for smbfs, but nothing that is ready
>for production use. If you feel comfortable building your own linux
>kernels then I can send you the address of the patches. But there is
>nothing that says they will work.
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>/Urban
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