[Samba] File locking from Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
P. K. Chan, Esq.
h0001716 at eee.hku.hk
Tue Jun 22 13:36:36 GMT 2004
> My guess would be that it's a bug in the finder implimentation of
> SMB. Try installing the samba utilities on your ibook (they're
> probably already there) and then mounting the filesystem (as opposed
> to just browsing the network). I'd bet locking works then. Then> you
can just mount/unmount the volume when you need to use it.
I have tried this:
sudo mount_smbfs //username at server/share /mnt/
It's the same as mounting it using Finder (ie unable to lock the
opend file).
Yours,
P. K.
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