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Running 3.0.4 on FreeBSD 5.2.1. Today there is a regular text file that appears to be locked. It is an ini file for an application. The file can be opened with notepad but if you try to save it an error message pops up... "The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file." smbstatus does not show this file as being open and it is mode 777.

Hi, How should you deal, as an administrator/root, with locked files that stay open after a PC crash and the user can't access them any more. For example: The PC crashes and the user restart. MS-Outlook complains that it can't open its outlook.pst file, that is on a samba share, with the proper read/write access and the user can't get any mail. As root you do a smbstatus -u and you

I'm not sure that this is the right place to ask about this, but one of my users is having a problem with her files,specifically excel files which she is editing with openoffice. I suspect that she is closing down her PC without logging out or something and so appears to be still logged in. She is using Vista and the server is a Debian Lenny box. Whenever she tries to access the files on

Hi, I hope some of you have been in a similar situation and can shed some light on this: I have a VPN connection to a Samba 4.1.4 server and when I use Word 2010 on a W7 client to open an existing file I often get the following error: "document.docx has been locked for editing by another user." I should clarify that the document is not in use by anyone (confirmed by smbstatus), and

Hi, When trying to copy 5000+ files from a client PC to a Samba server I have the following problem. Halfway during the operation it hangs on always the same file. Windows XP (SP1) gives: Unable to copy file [filename]. Specified network name is no longer available. (I had to translate this from Dutch, so it is not the exact message). When checking with smbstatus I get this:

Hi, I've got a Word document on a Samba share that I can't rename, overwrite or open. Attempting to rename it gives: Cannot rename Filename: There has been a sharing violation. Attempting to open it gives: Filename.doc is locked for editing by 'another user'. This is on a NAS box so I can't say which Samba version it is. There are no temporary files in the share to show who

I have a very small problem. Thanks for any suggestions. Say user1 logs onto a Windows XP workstation and opens file1. Then, if user2 attempts to open the file from another workstation the following message is displayed: "file1 is locked for editing by ''" Problem: *user1* is not displayed between the single quotes. However, say user1 logs onto a Win98 workstation and

hello, can anybody explain or point me to a document that explain the locked files section produced by smbstatus -L (see below). what means denymode ? access ? what means exclusive+batch in the oplock section ? can anybody point me to a document explaining the way file locking works ? regards # smbstatus -L Locked files: Pid DenyMode Access R/W Oplock Name

When using Samba 3.0.23b (slightly old, I know) on CentOS 4.4, smbstatus -B fails with a segmentation fault. smbstatus works, and tdbdump is able to dump brlock.tdb and locking.tdb without any errors (which is not what I expected). Here's the backtrace (non-ASCII characters replaced with 'X'): #0 0x0017fa2c in memcpy () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #1 0x0029b19f in tdb_write

On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 12:30:11PM +0000, Antonio via samba wrote: >Dear All, > >I'm sorry to bother the list with a problem that I am not sure >originates in Samba. >File server (no domain) is serving a mix of Windows 10 and Centos 7 >clients, I have strange byte range locks. > >- Server is Samba 4.17.5 / Kernel 5.14.0 Rocky 9.2 > >smbstatus -B gives: >

hello, Is there a good way of notifying all users that , say the server is going to be shut down? kinda like for a regular terminal session but through some kind of windows messaging? thanks in advance. Robert

Hi, I just upgrade from SUSE9.3 to SUSE10.0 and running samba-3.0.22-11. I have a workstation which store outlook.pst on Samba share. Yesterday, this workstation get hang and after a cold boot. It can't access the outlook.pst anymore, the system reported the pst file is using by someone and outlook can't open it?. Could anyone tell me is this pst file locked by Samba and how to

I have installed windows printer drivers and it worked but now I need to remove several. I have tried everything I can find but nothing will get rid of them. Using "remove" from a winxp machine in "server properties" won't work. It claims they are in use. I'm not sure what "in use" means. Nothing is printing and the drivers should be local. I've

Hi, I'm running smbd 2.2.8. I'm a little green when it comes to file locking with samba. I have two users that access a single data file on a FreeBSD box. It's a moneydance data file and obviously it gets messed-up if two users are writing to it at the same time. Is there a way with samba to stop a second instance of the file from being opened, something like a "File In

Dear All, I'm sorry to bother the list with a problem that I am not sure originates in Samba. File server (no domain) is serving a mix of Windows 10 and Centos 7 clients, I have strange byte range locks. - Server is Samba 4.17.5 / Kernel 5.14.0 Rocky 9.2 smbstatus -B gives: - When client is Windows 10: Byte range locks: Pid??????? dev:inode?????? R/W? start???? size

16.03.2024 21:26, Ralph Boehme wrote: > On 3/16/24 18:18, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> Enabling strict renames does not change anything.? Yes it prevents from >> renaming a directory if a file is open inside.? But not renaming a plain >> file which is locked. > > oh, you mean just rename a plain file that is currently opened by some client? That is possible as long as all

Hello everybody, we have the following problem here: We've set up a complete samba domain (based on 3.0.20 now) which is running very fine including ldap backend. But we've still problems using roaming profiles (especially prf*tmp) files. We already tested the veto oplock directive with /prf*.tmp/ and even /*.tmp/ but these files remain always locked. Only "root" can delete

On 3/16/24 18:18, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 16.03.2024 20:11, Ralph Boehme wrote: >> On 3/16/24 14:18, Michael Tokarev wrote: >>> So I'm trying to go exactly the opposite route: I'm mounting a samba >>> share on linux (with cifs, see $subject). >> >> ah, missed that. Had read it as if you were acting on the Samba server >> directly. >>

Hi, I've install Samba on AIX 3.2.5 and I'd like to know if there are large companies using Samba ? What's the size of your company ? How many users ? Do you know a limit of Samba ? (performances) Thanks Vincent Ceriani

Hello, we frequently face locking issues with office applications and documents on samba shares. The office applications claim that the document is locked and hence no write access is possible. I can check on the samba server that there is no concurrent access/locking from other computers or users. It looks like the same user holds some lock and is denied to access the document because it?s