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authorAndrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>1997-10-14 02:53:58 +0000
committerAndrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>1997-10-14 02:53:58 +0000
commit0826e4b41b9fcbcdd8ff758c8b5b6da9ca28eb66 (patch)
tree0cfaeedfa171ef0e25c852d510db59acd05c76fa
parent366ec4de30c34b30a9c2a0a0525fcfaa1a6f4bee (diff)
downloadsamba-0826e4b41b9fcbcdd8ff758c8b5b6da9ca28eb66.tar.gz
minor fixes to mangling and oplocks entries in man page
-rw-r--r--docs/manpages/smb.conf.517
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5 b/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5
index 740c0921919..b5fe0fd1a00 100644
--- a/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5
+++ b/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5
@@ -282,9 +282,9 @@ substitutions and other smb.conf options.
.SS NAME MANGLING
-Samba supports "name mangling" so that DOS and Windows clients can use
-files that don't conform to the 8.3 format. It can also be set to adjust
-the case of 8.3 format filenames.
+Samba supports "name mangling" so that older DOS and Windows 3 clients
+can use files that don't conform to the 8.3 format. It can also be set
+to adjust the case of 8.3 format filenames.
There are several options that control the way mangling is performed,
and they are grouped here rather than listed separately. For the
@@ -1206,12 +1206,11 @@ only one accessing the file and it will aggressively cache file
data. With some oplock types the client may even cache file open/close
operations. This can give enormous performance benefits.
-Samba does not support opportunistic locks because they are very
-difficult to do under Unix. Samba can fake them, however, by granting
-a oplock whenever a client asks for one. This is controlled using the
-smb.conf option "fake oplocks". If you set "fake oplocks = yes" then
-you are telling the client that it may aggressively cache the file
-data.
+Samba does not support opportunistic locks in this release. Samba can
+fake them, however, by granting a oplock whenever a client asks for
+one. This is controlled using the smb.conf option "fake oplocks". If
+you set "fake oplocks = yes" then you are telling the client that it
+may aggressively cache the file data.
By enabling this option on all read-only shares or shares that you know
will only be accessed from one client at a time you will see a big