On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 01:44:07PM -0000, Lewis, Rob wrote:
> Description:
>
> We are having problems getting NFS file locking working
> correctly. We have tried both NFS version 2 and 3 using both UDP and TCP
> transport mechanisms. Whentwo users access the same file; both have the
> ability to write to that file. Open Office also exhibits this behaviour.
>
>
>
> How-To-Repeat:
>
> Mount a shared file system to two different machines. Login as
> two different users and access a single file from both machines. We are
> using NIS for the user database. This can be replicated on all of our
> installations.
You do not say if you are using OpenBSD as a client or a server, but
start with reading man rpc.lockd, especially the BUGS section.
-Otto
