[Samba] locking in samba

[John H Terpstra]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Arjen wrote:

>
> I have been trying to get this together for a long time, tried many
> options and combinations of options, and have not been able to get it to
> work. If you or anyone else can enlighten Demchenko and me on this
> subject, it would definitely be appreciated.
>
> My conclusion for now is "It is not possible"...

Have you read the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf fro the Samba-3.0.0 RC1 or
RC2 docs directory?

Chapter 14 is dedicated to the subject. If you have read it your feedback
would be appreciated.

Cheers,
John T.

>
> Arjen.
>
>
> Demchenko Yevheniy wrote:
>
> >Hello! I've got into problems with simultaneous access to files on samba
> >server. Two (or more) people from different computers may open the same file
> >and may independently change it (with openoffice, for example). Certainly,
> >this is not the expected behavior. If the file is shared on windows machine,
> >when the first user opens it, he gots RW permission, while the next one(s)
> >may open this file only as read-only.
> >Tried on Samba3.0 alpha22, Samba3.0beta1 and Samba3.0rc1.
> >blocking locks, posix locking and locking are set to yes in smb.conf, 'force
> >user' is not set.
> >smbstatus says "Denymode DENY_NONE, oplocks NONE" on every connection to the
> >mentioned file.
> >I've tried to switch on/off oplocks, level2 oplocks, kernel oplocks, strict
> >locking, - nothing helps.
> >What am i missing?
> >Thanks.
> >
> >
>
>

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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org