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TCP/IP lockd support?

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The Question is:

 
We have ALPHA 1000 and ALPHA 2100 sever with OpenVms 6.2 on it with Digital
TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V4.1 - ECO Level 4 installed. We
want to use our ALPHA as NFS server too, so we tried WRQ NFS client.
Everything is working fine, except
file locking. When I start NFS client on NT machine I get message that there
is no locking deamon started on NFS server. Of course multiple users can
access same file at the same time. So, my question is: it is possible to
have any file locking on NFS ser
ver?
 
Thank you for your time
 
Rados
 

The Answer is :

 
  This will require a TCP/IP package with support for lockd.
 
  Control over multiple (shared) file access is a traditional
  problem with NFS and with various operating system
  implementations -- while OpenVMS does provide extensive
  locking, the TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS package does not
  presently provide the necessary lockd component that would
  be required in this environment.
 
  The implementation of and introduction of support for lockd
  within TCP/IP Services is generally viewed as something of
  interest.
 

  

     

     
answer written or last revised on ( 21-OCT-1999 )
     
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