Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:49:51 -0400 From: Doug Lee <dgl@dlee.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can I get SMBFS to cooperate with NT apps as well as Sharity Light? Message-ID: <20031020174951.GK93145@kirk.dlee.org>
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I am trying to open a series of database files from FreeBSD that are hosted by a Windows NT share. I only need read-only access at this point. For some reason though, if a file is opened by a Windows program, FreeBSD can't get read access to it if I use smbfs, but other Windows machines can and so can FreeBSD if I mount the share with Sharity instead of smbfs. I tried to find information in the mount_smbfs man page and in the smbfs source code on how to make smbfs grant me read access to an already-opened file, but I didn't find anything. Is there a way to get smbfs to grant the same access to files that Windows is using? This is FreeBSD 4.8-RC, in case it matters for this. Thanks much. -- Doug Lee dgl@dlee.org http://www.dlee.org Bartimaeus Group doug@bartsite.com http://www.bartsite.com "Sometimes I think my learning curve is a circle." -- David Andrews
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