[Samba] File Lock Timeout

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

>From: Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE>  
>On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 04:02:37PM +0000, Stringer Leon (West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust) wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately that doesn't help as
>> the user is one of many on a terminal server and all files
>> for that box are listed with pid 1216. So killing that
>> would cause a lot of problems (I assume).
>
>But then the file is still being held open by some process
>on the file server.

Yes, so either I have to wait for a timeout so the one user can edit their file or I can kill the process removing the locks for everyone else. So I have to wait, which was my original question, how long for?

The lock has gone now, but this problem has happened before and is bound to happen again. If I remember correctly, Windows allows you to close the locks on individual files, it would be nice if Samba did this too...

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