[Samba] File Lock Timeout

[Stringer Leon (West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust)]

Hi,

I've seen posts (but no answers) about clearing a file lock on a Samba share. Presumably this kind of thing happens when the program abnormally terminates and doesn't close its open files.

I've got a file that smbstatus reports as:

1216   DENY_WRITE 0x20089     RDONLY     NONE             /shares/share1/Files/december.xls   Fri Jan 12 12:51:30 2007

Trying to open this in Excel says it's locked for editing by the user who reports that they definitely don't have it open.

So I'm guessing this lock will eventually time out. But after how long? I can't find any documentation on this. But it looks like it's longer than 2 hours!

Thanks for any help,

Leon...

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