>From: Volker Lendecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 03:21:10PM +0000, Stringer Leon (West Midlands >Ambulance Service NHS Trust) wrote: >> I've seen posts (but no answers) about clearing a file >> lock on a Samba share. Presumably this kind of thing >> happens when the program abnormally terminates and doesn't >> close its open files. >> >> I've got a file that smbstatus reports as: >> >> 1216 DENY_WRITE 0x20089 RDONLY NONE >> /shares/share1/Files/december.xls Fri Jan 12 12:51:30 2007 >> >> So I'm guessing this lock will eventually time out. But >> after how long? I can't find any documentation on this. >> But it looks like it's longer than 2 hours! > >If the client who is being served by process 1216 is still >around you should ask the user sitting at that box to close >the file. If not, kill pid 1216 and the problem should solve >itself.
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately that doesn't help as the user is one of many on a terminal server and all files for that box are listed with pid 1216. So killing that would cause a lot of problems (I assume). >If this happens frequently to you, you might want to read >about the option 'reset on zero vc' in the manpage of >smb.conf. I'll check that out... ********************************************************************** Information in this message may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies; please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is used daily by over 100,000 staff in the NHS. Over a million messages are sent every day by the system. To find out why more and more NHS personnel are switching to this NHS Connecting for Health system please visit www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/nhsmail ********************************************************************** -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba