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Date:      Thu, 19 Nov 1998 09:41:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jordan Krushen <wired@purplemedia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rpc.lockd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811190941060.2017-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981118151236.18375K-100000@pc-37001.bc.rogers.wave.ca>

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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                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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