Enable or Disable File Locking/Sharing

If you choose Custom as the setup type, you can enable or disable file locking/sharing. Some applications (MS Office, for example) use file locking to request exclusive access to data files. If you are working in a network environment that allows other users to access files you are working on, enabling the file locking/sharing option will safeguard the data in your files.

Some servers do not support file locking (Solstice NFS Server, for example). If you enable file locking/sharing and then attempt to mount drives from an NFS server that does not support file locking, you will not be able to map drives, browse exports, or read and write files on that server.

The default is to disable file locking/sharing.