1 <samba:parameter xmlns:samba="http://samba.org/common">
2 <term><anchor id="POSIXLOCKING"/>posix locking (S)</term>
3 <listitem><para>The <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
4 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
5 daemon maintains an database of file locks obtained by SMB clients.
6 The default behavior is to map this internal database to POSIX
7 locks. This means that file locks obtained by SMB clients are
8 consistent with those seen by POSIX compliant applications accessing
9 the files via a non-SMB method (e.g. NFS or local file access).
10 You should never need to disable this parameter.</para>
12 <para>Default: <command moreinfo="none">posix locking = yes</command></para>