Sharing Database - Windows/XP

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:46:38 -0700 John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Apr 24, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
> 
> > At Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:15:23 -0700 John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Apr 24, 2010, at 5:32 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
> >> 
> >>> At Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:25:49 -0400 Phillip Richcreek <pwrichcreek at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Geert,
> >>>> 
> >>>> I had just summarized and re-stated my question before seeing your
> >>>> reply; so I did not (could not!) incorporate your reply in my
> >>>> restatement. I think it does, however, go to the heart of the issue.
> >>>> I'm no Windows expert, but I believe there are locking mechanisms
> >>>> available for the ntfs file system that (I believe) Windows/XP uses in
> >>>> the limited network environment that I am running.
> >>> 
> >>> 'NFS' (as mentioned below) is a *UNIX* network file system (sharing
> >>> files across multiple *unix* computers on a network).
> >> 
> >> NFS is a platform-independent TCP/IP remote mount protocol. It has
> >> been implemented on just about every operating system for which TCP/IP
> >> has, including Microsoft Windows. True, it's commonly provided with
> >> unix-like systems including Linux and the BSD, but I have used it on
> >> Microsoft Windows (both DOS-based and NT), VAX VMS, TOPS-20,  VM/CMS,
> >> OS/400, and PrimeOS.
> > 
> > Yes, this is all true.  NFS is *native* to most UNIX and UNIX-variants
> > (eg is a basic part of all Linux kernels and the user-mode utilites
> > related to NFS are a pretty standard part of any Linux distro and are
> > commonly installed by default).
> > 
> > It is unlikely that a network of only Microsoft Windows machines would
> > be using NFS.  NFS is not normally a part of the Microsoft Windows
> > installation. 
> 
> So what?
> 
> You do realize that Geert said NTFS (which is the native, not shared, file system used by Microsoft's NT kernel), not NFS,
> don't you?

Yes, but the original post he was responding to (top-posting no less,
which seems to have caused the original message to be lost), was talking
about NFS and the point of the .LCK + .LNK files link(2)ed together relates
to NFS Locking issues.  The link(2)ed .LCK + .LNK files don't occur
under MS-Windows both because the link(2) system service does not exist
(in the same sense as under UNIX) and because NFS Locking issues are not
an issue under MS-Windows because NFS is rarely used under MS-Windows.

> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
>                               

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