The
locking option can be used to tell Samba to engage or disengage server-side byte-range locks on behalf of the client. Samba implements byte-range locks on the server side with normal Unix advisory locks and will consequently prevent other properly-behaved Unix processes from overwriting a locked byte range.
This option can be specified per share as follows:
[accounting]
locking = yes
If the
locking option is set to
yes, the requestor will be delayed until the holder of either type of lock releases it (or crashes). If, however, the option is set to
no, no byte-range locks will be kept for the files, although requests to lock and unlock files will appear to succeed. The option is set to
yes by default; however, you can turn this option off if you have read-only media.
