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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/smbdotconf/protocol/defersharingviolations.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/smbdotconf/protocol/defersharingviolations.xml b/docs/smbdotconf/protocol/defersharingviolations.xml index 452ebef2dc..b37891fb01 100644 --- a/docs/smbdotconf/protocol/defersharingviolations.xml +++ b/docs/smbdotconf/protocol/defersharingviolations.xml @@ -8,13 +8,17 @@ Windows allows specifying how a file will be shared with other processes when it is opened. Sharing violations occur when a file is opened by a different process using options that violate - the share settings specified by other processes. + the share settings specified by other processes. This parameter causes + smbd to act as a Windows server does, and defer returning a "sharing + violation" error message for up to one second, allowing the client + to close the file causing the violation in the meantime. </para> <para>Unix by default does not have this behaviour.</para> <para> - There should be no reason to turn off this parameter. + There should be no reason to turn off this parameter, as it is + designed to enable Samba to more correctly emulate Windows. </para> </description> |