HP UX Common Internet File System (CIFS) Client/Server Software manual

Educating customers about when file locking is required will reduce the possibility of this feature being a lockout for bidding a deal2.

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).

2See Appendix B

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