[OpenAFS] AFS file locking doesn't work anymore with ms office xp

[Christian Fischer]

Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:02:36PM +0000, Chris Crowther wrote:
> 
>>   Would translating those into whole-file locks instead be a workable 
>>solution?
> 
> 
> For Samba as an AFS front end I've got a patch that takes another route: Once a
> file is opened in any way (read or write), I flock the complete file. The
> second opener gets the error message NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION. This is the
> error code designed for the windows share modes (whole-file locks). I don't
> think that it would be wise to map the windows-style byte range locks into
> anything that the server sees, as this would very likely kill performance
> completely. Unlike Unix apps Windows Apps do a hell lot of locking, and doing
> that over the net would incur really big latency issues.

unfortunately, AFS over Samba is not an option for us, since we do not
want clear text passwords over the network.