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From: Bastian Balthazar Bux <BastianBalthazarBux@×××××××××.it>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-server] [solved :(] Samba, concurrent access from win & linux (smbmount) dbase files
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 00:24:02
Message-Id: 42FE8EC6.8060306@pnpitalia.it
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] Samba, concurrent access from win & linux (smbmount) dbase files by Bastian Balthazar Bux
1 Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
2 [snip]
3 > Concurrent access to the same data is required from both linux and win2k.
4 > On linux box the share is mounted with smbmount.
5 [snip]
6
7 Not possible at all, linux samba mount doesn't propagate locks.
8 The flock() and rlock() functions of clipper will never work this way.
9
10 The only solution is to share the server directory both with "nfs" and
11 "samba".
12
13 This open the usuals problems of locking and sync, so both the server
14 need to be configured in a conservative manner, nocaching, sync always etc.
15 The result is a much slower file server for both the environments.
16
17 I'm very open to every suggestion.
18
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Re: [gentoo-server] [solved :(] Samba, concurrent access from win & linux (smbmount) dbase files Anthony Gorecki <agorecki@××××××××××.com>