Hi,
We use Debian Linux for our Samba file server and for our client laptops. The
clients mount the Samba shares by CIFS/SMB.
Everything works fine except for one issue:
If someone opens a document (e.g. .ods) in LibreOffice, nobody else can open
the same document, not even read only or as a copy!
LibreOffice asks if you want to open it read only or as a copy, but none of
these options works:
For "read only", nothing happens. And for "as a copy" an empty Writer windows
appears, even if you tried to open a Calc file.
I can't even run "md5sum mydoc.ods", while another user has opened "mydoc.ods"
in LibreOffice Calc. It says: "Permission denied".
Only if the first user closes Calc / the document, the next user can open it.
Deleting the "~lock.<filename>" file is possible for all users! But it doesn't
help.
It just makes LibreOffice say "is in use by unknown user" instead of "in use by
rbarclay".
(Sorry if the i18n message strings in source code are not exactly the same in
English as described, we have the German localization and I freely translated
them.)
There seems to be an issue with the file locking of LibreOffice on CIFS shares
on Linux.
Has somebody else encountered this issue so far? Is there maybe an issue
ticket?
What file locking related config tweaks are available in LibreOffice?
Preventing concurrent WRITE access is reasonable. But concurrent READ only
access should be allowed!
Here some information from "smbstatus --byterange" on the file server if a user
has opened "ipsum.ods" in LibreOffice and noone else can open it concurrently:
Locked files:
Pid Uid DenyMode Access R/W Oplock
SharePath Name Time
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
28991 11141 DENY_NONE 0x80 RDONLY NONE
/srv/samba/stuff . Wed Jun 25 10:17:28 2025
28991 11141 DENY_NONE 0x12019f RDWR LEASE()
/srv/samba/stuff lorem/ipsum.ods Wed Jun 25 10:17:48 2025
Byte range locks:
Pid dev:inode R/W start size SharePath Name
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
28991 802:59a1180:0 W 0 -9223372036854775808
lorem/ipsum.ods
Thank you for any advice!
Yours,
Reg
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