[Samba] mount.cifs not reporting locking issues to Linux?

Jason Haar Jason.Haar at trimble.co.nz
Wed Oct 21 17:11:39 MDT 2009


On 10/22/2009 12:07 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:33:28AM +1300, Jason Haar wrote:
>   
>> Hi there
>>
>> I recall in times past that when a locked file on a Windows server was
>> accessed by smbfs, you received a kind of "text file busy" type error
>> under Linux. However, on our CentOS4 servers running mount.cifs,
>> accessing a locked file now only reports a "Permission denied"
>>
>> Wireshark shows the server sending "STATUS_FILE_LOCK_CONFLICT" errors to
>> Linux, but it appears that isn't exposed to the OS?
>>
>> Is this a bug - or a lack of a feature? This is samba-3.2.11-1
>>     
> Is this smbfs you're using, or cifsfs ?
>
> Jeremy.
>   
cifsfs - I don't think smbfs exists any more?

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