On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:28:43AM -0700, Philip Ong wrote: > 1) Does "strict locking = no" negate "kernel oplocks = yes" ? No. > 2) What's the difference between the two? One controls kernel oplocks, the other one controls whether smbd checks SMB/SMB2/CIFS read/write requests against existing mandatory locks. > 3) What a good way to test if a file got a lock seen from the linux side and the windows side? cat /proc/locks On windows, write a Win32 program. > 4) If a file has a lock, does that mean you can still open the file in linux or in windows, but can't write to it? A lock from who ? CIFS/NFS/local process ? > Any clarification between the two would be helpful. Hope this helps. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba