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
>
>
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