[Samba] locking .. smb locks and unix locks

[Joel Hammer]

I guess you are referring to file locks?

I don' think earlier versions played well with unix locks, that is, it was
my impression that a unix user could write to a file "locked" by samba.
That may have changed or you may be able to use one of the locking
parameters and make them play nicer together. 
I would suggest:
man  smb.conf
/     kernel oplocks  
n
for some information.
BUT, you can easily find out for yourself. Use an application that
request file locks (notepad won't.  word might) and see what happens
when you try to access such files from another samba client and a unix
client. Then let us know.

Joel

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:43:04PM +1000, mlh wrote:
> 
> I posted a question earlier (below) regarding two
> instances of samba on the same machine.
> 
> Unfortuneately my question only elicited questions.
> 
> Can anyone tell me whether samba locks and Unix
> locks pay well together?  Will samba notice unix
> locks aaaaand vice versa?   I _did_ look at the documentation
> but I think it was very out of date. (e.g. UNIX-SMB.txt
> in samba 2.2.3 says that "Unix has no simple way of implementing
> opportunistic locking, and currently Samba has no support for it")
> which I'm sure is false and has been false for a while.
> 
> If Unix and Samba locking DO work together, then two samba's
> should be a no-brainer right?
> 
> Another way to acheive what I want is to have Samba
> join two domains at once and decide per user which one
> to authenticate against.  Is this at all possible?
> It seems to join (smbpasswd -j ...) two domains, but
> only auths against one.
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I want to run two Samba servers on a single machine
> during a transition from NT domain to W2k AD server
> setup.   And samba 2.0.7 to 2.2.5.  And NT wkstation to XP.
> 
> To do this I'd like to run the two versions of Samba simultaneously
> on the one machine.  I figure this would be easy enough if I
> have them bind to different listing addresses.
> 
> However, since the two servers will sharing the same shares,
> will there be a problem with locking?
> Or will it be ok, since they both just use the underlying Unix
> locks?
> 
> Has anyone done this?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matt
> PS. Another possibility that occurred to me is the have the
> second server on a second machine NFS mounting the first.
> But I think this would be even hairier.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
> instructions:  http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
> 
> .
> 
> 
> -- 
> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
> instructions:  http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba