[TriLUG] Samba file locks

[Joe Allesi]

Lee,

smbstatus should output something like the following:


PID     Username      Group         Machine
-------------------------------------------------------------------
22781   john       john      john-machine

Locked files:
Pid    DenyMode   Access      R/W        Oplock           Name
--------------------------------------------------------------
22781  DENY_NONE  0x20089     RDONLY     EXCLUSIVE+BATCH  /home/file.txt


You should be able to match the locked file PID with a user/group/ 
computer in the lines above the locked files.  If the output does  
show a specific PID to user mapping, you can then contact the user  
and have them stop using whatever application is requesting the lock  
via the share.  As a last resort, you should be able to kill the  
offending PID.

Joe


On Dec 6, 2005, at 10:48 AM, Lee Fickenscher wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I have a file locked on a samba server that no one is currently  
> accessing. I can see the lock using smbstatus but I don't know how  
> to associate the lock with a particular user. I've googled and  
> found no pertinent information and the samba doc section on locks  
> ( Chapter 16. File and Record Locking ) doesn't appear to address  
> this issue either.
>
> My question is:
>
> 1) How does one associate a lock with a particular user, so I can  
> verify that the lock should be there
> and
> 2) How can those locks be cleared if they shouldn't be there
>
> Thanks,
> Lee--
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