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authorJeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>2009-01-12 16:27:31 -0800
committerKarolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>2009-01-20 14:16:45 +0100
commit7945187b78cd10cb8eb89cdfb7fd32d2d6c5f14c (patch)
tree330bd8b83c057d75bb74920a46ade72574617bf0 /docs-xml
parente97904610006bde4ab112e09588947af4322311e (diff)
downloadsamba-7945187b78cd10cb8eb89cdfb7fd32d2d6c5f14c.tar.gz
Deprecate the "share modes" parameter to address bug #6024, swat disagrees with smbstatus as to share mode with share modes = No set in samba.
Jeremy. (cherry picked from commit d727c40eabc72f9351dcf5cd17a079c83f349c65)
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/locking/sharemodes.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/locking/sharemodes.xml
index e8371a563da..c529886d33e 100644
--- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/locking/sharemodes.xml
+++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/locking/sharemodes.xml
@@ -3,25 +3,26 @@
context="S"
xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
<description>
- <para>This enables or disables the honoring of
- the <parameter moreinfo="none">share modes</parameter> during a file open. These
- modes are used by clients to gain exclusive read or write access
+ <para>This enables or disables the honoring of
+ the <parameter moreinfo="none">share modes</parameter> during a file open. These
+ modes are used by clients to gain exclusive read or write access
to a file.</para>
+ <para>This is a deprecated option from old versions of
+ Samba, and will be removed in the next major release.
+ </para>
+
<para>These open modes are not directly supported by UNIX, so
- they are simulated using shared memory, or lock files if your
- UNIX doesn't support shared memory (almost all do).</para>
+ they are simulated using shared memory.</para>
- <para>The share modes that are enabled by this option are
- <constant>DENY_DOS</constant>, <constant>DENY_ALL</constant>,
- <constant>DENY_READ</constant>, <constant>DENY_WRITE</constant>,
- <constant>DENY_NONE</constant> and <constant>DENY_FCB</constant>.
+ <para>The share modes that are enabled by this option are
+ the standard Windows share modes.
</para>
- <para>This option gives full share compatibility and enabled
+ <para>This option gives full share compatibility and is enabled
by default.</para>
- <para>You should <emphasis>NEVER</emphasis> turn this parameter
+ <para>You should <emphasis>NEVER</emphasis> turn this parameter
off as many Windows applications will break if you do so.</para>
</description>
<value type="default">yes</value>