Paul McNett wrote: > On Friday 21 March 2003 05:07 pm, Bill Medland wrote: > > >> The Samba server does the right thing, so host the file on unix/linux. > > > Ok, let me get this straight. If I host the file on Linux using Samba, and > connect to it using mixed Windows and Linux/Wine clients, the locking > should be respected all around? > > If so, then that's completely acceptable. For me, anyway. > > So... where is the failing exactly? Windows SMB clients connecting to > Windows SMB servers respect locks just fine. Windows SMB clients > connecting to Linux Samba shares respect locks just fine (I've been doing > this for years). Is the problem with the smbclient then? Sorry, I'm a > layperson when it comes to all this lowlevel stuff... > >
That would seem to be the case. I saw a announcement has a new maintainer so maybe even this is not a long term problem
> The smbfs filesystem The smbfs filesystem is a mountable SMB filesystem for > Linux. It does not run on any other systems. > > Up until recently smbfs has not been maintained as nobody in the Samba Team > used it. This has now changed, and Andrew Tridgell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > has taken over maintainence. > > A new release of smbmount will be in the 2.0.6 release of Samba.
Samba 2.0.6 was released Mon Oct 21 16:11:25 2002
So.... Maybe we should droup him a line...
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Tony Lambregts
