samba - Jun 2004 - How reliable is file locking?

I'm mounting remote windows shares using smbd Version 3.0.2a and I just 
wanted to ask the experts how reliable is the file locking?

The drives I'm mounting will be from a full array of windows os's (98, 
nt4, 2k & xp) and the client will be a linux box (kernel 2.6.5+) and I'm
using rsync to pull backups off the windows boxes onto my linux box.

I just wanted to make sure that while I'm pulling off the backups that 
the files won't be changed.

Any comments please.

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:57:20AM +0100, Toby Batch
wrote:
> I'm mounting remote windows shares using smbd Version 3.0.2a and I just
> wanted to ask the experts how reliable is the file locking?
> 
> The drives I'm mounting will be from a full array of windows os's
(98,
> nt4, 2k & xp) and the client will be a linux box (kernel 2.6.5+) and
I'm
> using rsync to pull backups off the windows boxes onto my linux box.
> 
> I just wanted to make sure that while I'm pulling off the backups that 
> the files won't be changed.
Changed by who and what ? Samba will prevent other Windows clients 
from doing this (3.0.x ships with strict locking = true).

Jeremy.