[Samba] Re: Samba hangs over nfs

[Komal Shah]

Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:59:02PM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Likely your NFS server/client combo doesn't have functioning file locking.
> 
> Retry with 'posix locking = no'.
> 
> Volker

What consequences does this parameter have? Any negative?
Correct me if i'm wrong but this can lead to two processes writing to 
the same file which easily leeds to file corruption?

Regards,

Komal