Hi Alain, sorry for long reply, I was on national holiday for 2days. > > cifs does not replace samba, samba still the file server. > > > > cifs is use as the filesystem to mount samba share, then dosemu would run our program on > > lredired drive. > > the lock here means file locking between multiuser apps that use the same file. > > Could you give setup commands? This may interest more people, so I am > bringing it back to the list... > > I am not sure that I understand: You have a samba server, maybe even on > the same machine; cifs then replaces samba-client, on every machine; > then dosemu relays the file-locks correctly. Are you using freeDOS? > Our setup is like this - 1 server -- LTSP 4.2 use for the diskless client, booting through PXE. we have mixed environment ;=) -- SAMBA use to for dos clipper/foxpro application. in smb.conf we set 'cifs extensions = no', so samba will behave more like windows server, written in the documentation. - 3 client with harddisk -- centos 5 --- desktop IceWM --- upgrade to cups 1.3 --- dosemu 1.4 --- upgrade to cifs 1,5 --- wine 0.9.36 - 10 LTSP client -- same like server the server have several shared directories \\bigdady\administrations \\bigdady\public \\bigdady\someshare CLIENT SETUP ------------ * mount server share because our user is not linux friendly, we make some shortcut for the client so when they entered dosemu they will get the server shared already connected. we put in autoexec.bat something like this, both for the unix connectsmb.sh lredir f: /home/user/mount f: the content of connectsmb.sh, the conditional test for the same user does not mount multiple time if they already have the share mounted. statusq=`df -h 2> /dev/null|grep $HOME/mount|awk '{ print $5 }'` if [ -z $statusq ]; then sudo mount -t cifs \\bigdady\administrations /home/user/mount -o username=myuser,password=mypassword,uid=myuser,gid=myusergid, nounix,direct fi * printing, for printing we use cups 1.3. for LTSP client, we create .dosemurc that define their personalize printer. printing parameter has change from dosemu 1.2 to 1.4 so in .dosemurc we put $_lpt1 = "lpr -l -P lq2180" $_printer_timeout = (2) for the client with harddisk is more simple, we put in dosemu.conf global for all the user. $_lpt1 = "lpr -l -P lq2180_local" $_printer_timeout = (2) * finishing because the server is not 24 hour running (workhour only 08:00am to 10:00pm), it is important to make sure that all the ltsp client disconnect from using the server shared properly. so instead telling the user to use exitemu to exit dosemu, we make some batchfile to unmount the shared and then exit from dosemu (lets just call it timeout.bat). timeout.bat c: unix sudo umount /home/myuser/mount exitemu because mount will not work if user have open several dosemu session, so it is safe to do it like this. > Sorry if I may seam a little dumb, but some time ago Bart said that lock > did NOT work... and I googled about cifs and could not really understand > the details. > yes, we also read it in dosemu 1.4 documentation, that the lock on lredir drive may or may not work, and $_file_full_locks = (on) may help. But in my case, if we turn $_file_full_locks = (on) it will break things, so we still let $_file_full_locks = (off). thanks - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html