[Samba] FileLockEx Problem

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Steven Bush wrote:

| I'm a developer working on an application for Windows
| XP and have been  using the Win32 API call FileLockEx()
| on shared files (writing or  reading).  This has been working
| fine, but we now have a customer where this causes the
| following error when trying to lock a file on a samba
| network drive (it works fine if the file is local or
| on a windows shared drive):
|
| LockFileEx returns false.
| GetLastError = 50
| Error message = "The network request is not supported."
|
| We have a samba drive at our facility where this works
| fine and other  customers have not experienced this
| problem.  Any idea what may be the problem?

If the command works on one share/server but not another,
then you probably should look at a level 10 debug log on
the failed server/share to see what command is failing.
grep for NT_STATUS to see the return codes.





cheers, jerry
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