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how to release file lock in SAMBA 3.2.5 share (MS Word [filename] is locked for edit.

Hi All,

I'm having problem with the Samba 3.2.5 file share which host my MS-Word Document the user (user1) already restart her PC but still she cannot open the file from MS Word

here's the file and it's status on the samba drive:

Code:

fuso:/export/client1/projects/P1999-FSDC/ProjectMgmt/Requirements/CES Web/Issue 2.7# lsof | grep P1999-ces-rs04-issue2.7.doc

fuso:/export/client1/projects/P1999-FSDC/ProjectMgmt/Requirements/CES Web/Issue 2.7# smbstatus



Samba version 3.2.5

PID    Username      Group        Machine

-------------------------------------------------------------------

2448      sysadmin        12212        __ffff_10.2.3.130 (::ffff:10.2.3.130)



Service      pid    machine      Connected at

-------------------------------------------------------

projects    2448  __ffff_10.2.3.130  Mon Sep 20 08:26:43 2010



No locked files



fuso:/export/client1/projects/P1999-FSDC/ProjectMgmt/Requirements/CES Web/Issue 2.7# ls -lap

total 47256

drwxrwsr-x  2 user1 12258    4096 2010-09-20 15:00 ./

drwxrwsr-x 18 boss1 12258    4096 2010-07-01 12:41 ../

-rwxrw-r--  1 user1 12258 48327168 2010-09-13 17:35 P1999-ces-rs04-issue2.7.doc

fuso:/export/client1/projects/P1999-FSDC/ProjectMgmt/Requirements/CES Web/Issue 2.7# lsof | grep P1999-ces-rs04-issue2.7.doc

fuso:/export/client1/projects/P1999-FSDC/ProjectMgmt/Requirements/CES Web/Issue 2.7# uname -a

Linux fuso 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 04:57:38 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

fuso:/export/client1/projects/P1999-FSDC/ProjectMgmt/Requirements/CES Web/Issue 2.7#

any idea please in how to reset the Samba file locking mechanism ?

Thanks.

How is samba configured is it mounting the windows drive on linux ...

You try restarting the samba service...

You are using fedora or ubuntu or any other distribution...??

thanks for your quick reply prayag,

this is SAMBA on Debian 5 32 bit OS, it is mounted as shared network drive on Windows XP

if i do restart the samba service then all of the other user in the company will be affected (that is why idon't go into that option).

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/samba reload



or



sudo smbd reload

it will reload smb service without affecting connected users

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/...n/locking.html

this link will be help full to you

thanks man for the help in this problem.