Sharing Database - Windows/XP

[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 21 April 2010, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:42:32 -0700 (PDT) Phil Longstaff 
<plongstaff at rogers.com> wrote:
> > I don't know if this is related to bug
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352491 or not.
> 
> I just did some experiments on my Linux box.  GnuCash creates a single
> file with *two* names (trivial to do under UNIX with a UNIX-flavored
> file system -- just a matter of fun with the link(2) system service).
> The .LCK and .LNK files refer to the *same* inode.  Does MS-Windows let
> you do that?  And does the NETBIOS protocol support such magic?
> 
For windows this doesn't matter. The .LCK and .LNK functionality is explicitly 
disabled on Windows systems. That code was added to deal with nfs locking 
issues. Nfs is (assumed) not (to be) available on Windows, so the extra code 
is not compiled in that platform.

But it might indeed be relevant when accessing your data file from a linux box 
over netbios (via samba), when the code is enabled, while NETBIOS doesn't 
support such tricks.

Geert