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- From: mjw@mailbox.eng.ufl.edu (Mike Wohlgemuth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: File locking with NFS & IPX clients
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.145116.17420@eng.ufl.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 14:51:16 GMT
- Article-I.D.: eng.1992Nov18.145116.17420
- Sender: news@eng.ufl.edu (Usenet Diskhog System)
- Organization: Engineering Computing Services - University of Florida
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- We need to have a Sun workstation & a DOS client to do some sort
- of file locking over Netware. Basically, when a DOS client connecting
- over IPX has the file open, we want it locked so the Sun connecting
- over NFS can't open it, and vice-versa. The file will always be
- created by the Sun, and the DOS program that is reading the file
- is a canned peice of software that we cannot modify. The only thing
- I can think of is using mandatory file locking on the Sun side, but
- mandatory locks can cause problems. So, what is the best way to
- implement this?
-
- Thanks
- Mike
-