Hi. Occasionally a problem crops up with "File already in use by another user" when it isn't !! This is usually a Lotus organiser data file which is on the RH8/Samba 2.2.7 server. I can't find a way of clearing this "Lock" except by rebooting the server... there must be a better way, any ideas ? Thanks Mike --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Scanned with Grisoft AVG 6.0. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 27/01/2003
Could this be an oplocks problem? Joel On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:36:40PM -0000, Mike Stewart wrote:> Hi. Occasionally a problem crops up with "File already in use by another user" when it isn't !! This is usually a Lotus organiser data file which is on the RH8/Samba 2.2.7 server. I can't find a way of clearing this "Lock" except by rebooting the server... there must be a better way, any ideas ?
> Could this be an oplocks problem? > JoelI fear it's not an oplocks problem... I'm experiencing the very same problem on a Mandrake 9 box running Samba 2.2.7, and in my case the affected files are normal MS Office documents. Please have a look to my previous message "Self-locking files?", roughly one month ago, in the mailing list for details. As suggested [by Joel, btw], I set the oplocks to disabled in the samba cfg file (even 2nd level oplocks) but to no avail. It still happens, randomly. I'd say a few times a day, with an average of 10 samba users. I don't dare to upgrade to Samba 2.2.7A or newer because, apart from that symptom, my samba box is doing a great job, and I don't want to take a risk. Corrado
> i'ts not always samba. espacially office uses a lot of TSR programms, > which will unlock the files extremly late...it's possible... the problem in my case surfaces when the user opens a file, and it gets opened as a "read-only" file. Or (I mean XOR :-) when trying to save, and the file appears to be allocated by another user, which is not the case in reality. Thus I'm possibly facing TWO different problems: 1) files being opened as "read-only" (but their attrib are *not* read-only) 2) files supposedly already locked when a user tries to save them. [I did verify that nobody else previously opened a "case-2" file, at least in the same workday, otherwise we're probably back to case 1] Case (2) is a good candidate for your hypotesis, but case (1) seems to be different. [of course, nobody else previously opened a "case-2" file, otherwise we're back to case (1)] Unfortunately couldn't find a reasonable explanation and/or solution for the problem, but fortunately it's not a huge problem, just a nuisance. Thanks, Corrado
Just free associating here, but:
When you say reboot the server, do you mean:
1. Restarting samba?
or
2. Rebooting the computer?
Joel
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:36:40PM -0000, Mike Stewart
wrote:> Hi. Occasionally a problem crops up with "File already in use by
another user" when it isn't !! This is usually a Lotus organiser data
file which is on the RH8/Samba 2.2.7 server. I can't find a way of clearing
this "Lock" except by rebooting the server... there must be a better
way, any ideas ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
Thanks for fessin' up. You might want to give more details so others could learn from your mistake. For example, I have never heard of "Netwatcher." Joel On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:26:38AM -0000, Mike Stewart wrote:> Ohhhhh.... what embarrassment, I hang my head in shame !!!! Seems I've been > missing some really vital element here.... the file was not on my RH server > but was on another user's PC and shared so all I had to do was use their > Netwatcher to disconnect the user, so when they reconnected the problem had > gone. > > Deepest, deepest apologies for wasting time here. > > Mike > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joel Hammer" <Joel@HammersHome.com> > To: "Mike Stewart" <mike@powys-training.co.uk>; <samba@lists.samba.org> > Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 2:49 PM > Subject: Re: [Samba] File "In Use" when it's not... problem > > > > Just free associating here, but: > > When you say reboot the server, do you mean: > > > > 1. Restarting samba? > > or > > 2. Rebooting the computer? > > > > Joel > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Scanned with Grisoft AVG 6.0. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 27/01/2003 > > >