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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:17:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Jordan Krushen <wired@purplemedia.com>
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Subject: Re: rpc.lockd
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Jordan Krushen wrote:

> OK, then can someone point me to a better solution? ;)

samba + sharity light?  The major issue is that the source program in
Windows based, so we have to use a filesystem that it can understand...

> > On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Jordan Krushen wrote:
> > 
> > > I've noticed in rc.conf that lockd is 'broken', and in reading the man
> > > pages, I'm told that it's only broken when the NFS client is a FreeBSD box
> > > as well.  What I have is a scenario where a windows app (which uses
> > > file/record locking across its filesystem) exists at two remote locations,
> > > and we have a FreeBSD box at each site.  I was thinking of mounting each
> > > other's filesystems with NFS and then sharing those with Samba, but I take
> > > it the locking won't work correctly.  Would simply running a Windows NFS
> > > client on the workstations, running through the BSD gateway, solve the
> > > problem?
> > 
> > Any sort of file locking on NFS should not be depended on.  There is no
> > documented standard for handling the protocol.

Doug White                               
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