At 05:28 PM 14/06/2003 +0200, you wrote:

>At 01.19 15/06/2003 +1000, you wrote:
> >Well, my prejudices tell me that one filesystem's system can't set
> >attributes on another system's filesystem. So fbserver on host A can't
> >open database file on host B with exclusive access...
>
>I am not speaking about "setting attributes"
>my experience on SMB tells me that if I open from a client a file on a
>Server with
>"Deny Write" sharing attribute
>noone from the network or the server will be able to open the file.
>In SMB the redirector on the client is in sync with the one on the server,
>so when a file is opened by a client with deny write the server will reject
>the request
>from other clients.

We aren't talking about SMB here (though I did ask about it, thinking about
side-effects of having this flag true). We are talking about plain old NFS.

I'd like to keep this on-topic if possible, as I have to document what is,
not what isn't.

Helen