[TriLUG] Samba file locks

[Lee Fickenscher]

Joe,
Perfect! Thats exactly what I needed to know.
I was hoping for something that did a direct correlation between file  
and user, but with the info that you've pointed out I can just script  
something to do that for me.
Thanks!
-Lee

On Dec 6, 2005, at 10:38 PM, Joe Allesi wrote:

> 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