George Abdelmalik wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been running with 2.0_RC4 for a number for weeks.  This NetBSD 
> box is predominately used as a samba file server and central backup 
> machine as it has a DDS-4 tape drive.  I use mount_smbfs(8) to mount 
> file systems of Win 98, Win 2000 and WP boxes for backup purposes.
>
> What I have observed is that having mounted one of these file systems 
> (which are shared as read-only from their windows host) that if a file 
> is already open on that host machine then access to that file from 
> within the smbfs mounted file system is not permitted.    "Error: 
> file.txt: Permission denied;"
>
> This behaviour has been repeatable and I've also tried it out with 
> 2.99.9, which behaved the same.
>
> My original thought was that it was probably a windows issue, but I've 
> recently set up the same test trying a linux implementation (Mandrake 
> 9.2, kenrel 2.6.x) of smbfs which didn't produce this error.
>
> I've also discovered a posting on a FreeBSD mailing list 
> (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/64719) which 
> describes this exact same problem in their 4.9 release.  The problem 
> has since been fixed in release 4.10.
>
> As the NetBSD smbfs is a port from FreeBSD's implementation it is very 
> likely that this problem has been inherited.
>
> Is anybody able to comfirm this issue?
>
>
> Regards,
> george.
>
>
Fixed by revision   src/sys/fs/smbfs/smbfs_vnops.c    rev  1.45