Would using a NetWare simulator have the same result? The NW clients can be very well-behaved, and the client settings permit you to manipulate locking and caching... Rick On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Jorge R . Csapo wrote: > assim falou admin@kilnar.com (em 16/01/2001): > > > > As far as I know, StarOffice does not offer an file sharing capabilities. > > You are looking for Samba which will allow you to create a Windows-like > > fileshare on a Linux box that people can access across the network. This > > will allow people to save their work in a shared environment which will > > allow for collaboration, easy backups and other benefits. > > > > Yes, Samba is you ticket, but there's one pitfall. If you share a disk with > Samba so that Windows stations can use it, then you must use Samba also on the > Linux boxes to acccess those shares (via smbmount). If you export the same > filesystem with Samba for Windows stations and say, NFS for Linux and Unix ones, > you'll have problems. > > Apparently, Windows stations build internal caches of networked shares contents > and uses SMB itself to keep the caches coherent. If a file is modified through > a mechanism other than SMB (i.e. NFS), than the Windows stations which had > previously accessed that file will refuse to update and the user will get the > old version until s/he reboots. > > While it is possible to use smbmount on the Linux boxes to access those shares, > it's a lot slower, unsafe and less convenient than using NFS. > > AFAIK, this is the only way to make Linux and Windows machines work coherently > on a shared filesystem, but it's sort of a "worst of both worlds" solution. If > anyone knows a better way to do this, please set me straight. > > HTH > > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
