Locked files

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:16:30PM +0100, Denis Chancogne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> when I do "smbstatus", I have this :
> 
> ...
> Pid    DenyMode   R/W        Oplock           Name
> --------------------------------------------------
> 2470   DENY_WRITE RDWR  NONE  /export/raiddisk/mail/Boites/franck.pst  
> Wed Jan 16 13:44:52 2002
> ...
> 
> and the 2470 pid does not exist yet. (This is because the PC suddenly
> powered off)
> 
> So when I try to access this last file, the PC talk to me that file is
> already opened.
> 
> How can I resolve this problem ?
> (Different solution from :
>   - restart smbd
>   - copy file to another name and change finally this name to have the
> same as the beginning
> )
> 
> NB: I use Windows 2000 and Samba 2.2.0 under Solaris 7.

This is a known bug in that release. It is fixed in 2.2.2 and
further scalability fixes have been added for 2.2.3.

Jeremy.