HP CIFS File Locking Interoperation

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Educating customers about when file locking is required will reduce the
possibility of this feature being a lockout for bidding a deal
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How a file is locked by a file system depends upon the locking features that are invoked
(Windows has multiple locking modes), or what platform the file resides upon (Windows or
UNIX), or what access method the client is using to open the file. With CIFS/9000 providing
file-sharing access to multiple client types, the shared (heterogeneous) access combinations
can become confusing. We will start to clarify locking behavior in these combinations by
explaining how each access method locks a file on its own file system (homogenous).
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See Appendix B