Tom Talpey <tom@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I don't fully understand your response. What does "knows about syscall > from local apps" mean, from a practical perspective? That it never > forwards any flock() call to the server? Or that it somehow caches > the flock() results, and never checks if the server has a conflict > from another client? Yes that's what I'm trying to say. Locking never goes on the wire. Server is not aware of locking, and thus neither are any other clients. Cheers, -- Aurélien Aptel / SUSE Labs Samba Team GPG: 1839 CB5F 9F5B FB9B AA97 8C99 03C8 A49B 521B D5D3 SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, DE GF: Felix Imendörffer, Mary Higgins, Sri Rasiah HRB 247165 (AG München)