samba - Feb 2014 - Samba 4 DC - File locking problems when a client crashes

We are using Samba 4.1.4 as a standalone domain controller for 50 Windows 7
Clients.
If a client crashes or the user hasn't shutdown his computer correctly,
smbstatus shows still
many open files from this user. (like desktop shotcuts, firefox profile and so
on.)
When this user starts his computer again, Windows can't access these files
anymore, all desktop shutcuts are missing
and Firefox won't start and tells the user that Firefox has been already
opened.
?
At the moment i do the following procedure to resolve this:
1. Shutdown the computer of the user
2. smbstatus | grep username? (to see what PIDs are still accessing the files of
the user)
3. kill -9 PID?
4. Start the computer
?
Is there a better solution for this problem, or maybe an smb.conf option, so
that i don't must
kill all running PIDs manually?

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 02:27:18PM +0100, Julian Timm
wrote:
> 
> We are using Samba 4.1.4 as a standalone domain controller for 50 Windows 7
Clients.
> If a client crashes or the user hasn't shutdown his computer correctly,
smbstatus shows still
> many open files from this user. (like desktop shotcuts, firefox profile and
so on.)
> When this user starts his computer again, Windows can't access these
files anymore, all desktop shutcuts are missing
> and Firefox won't start and tells the user that Firefox has been
already opened.
> ?
> At the moment i do the following procedure to resolve this:
> 1. Shutdown the computer of the user
> 2. smbstatus | grep username? (to see what PIDs are still accessing the
files of the user)
> 3. kill -9 PID?
> 4. Start the computer
> ?
> Is there a better solution for this problem, or maybe an smb.conf option,
so that i don't must
> kill all running PIDs manually?
Set

reset on zero vc = yes

in the [global] section of your smb.conf

Volker

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