Samba and file locking

Phaethar · 12-22-2006, 09:59 AM

Hey all,

Had a quick question regarding Samba and file locking. I have a server set up running FC5 and Samba 3.0.23-1.fc5. One of our users had her PC (running WinXP w/SP2) crash on her while she had an Excel document open. Upon rebooting her PC, she's being told that her user still has the document open and she can't write to it. Of course, she needs to write to it.

Oplocks on this server are set up as follows:

Code:

   oplocks = no
   level2 oplocks = no
   lock spin time = 15
   lock spin count = 30

My question is: what can I do about getting rid of the file lock? Restarting the server or samba are not options. Is there something that can be done on the system to release the lock, or do I simply need to wait for her old session to time out?

Thanks.

xjlittle · 12-23-2006, 07:03 PM

You may be able to run the command

Code:

smbstatus |grep herusername

and find the pid associated with the document and kill it.

hrh