I think the application that you use(for e.g. kwrite..) also need's to understand File locking capabilities, which is present in Office in windows. What application do you use to access the file? For e.g. Notepad in windows will not have file locking capabilities.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Rishi" usergroups@theargoncompany.com To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 1:50 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] File Locking using smbmount
Hi
I have a Samba Server on RH9 and when I map the shares on Windows client computers, the files are locked so the users do not accidentally overwrite other people's files on the network. (This is the good news)
However, the Linux client computers use smbmount to map the shares within their home folders, which do not lock the files... so when two users on
the
network try to access the same file, the contents of the file will be that
of
the person that saved the file the last.
I've looked at the man page of smbmount to see if I can enable file
locking at
the client level .... no joy.
Any tips on how to fix this?
Thanks
Rishi