[Samba] Can Samba lock files until copy is complete?

[Andrew Porter]

On 20 Aug 2010, at 21:49, Whit Blauvelt <whit+samba at transpect.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We've got a system where staff use Samba mounts on their Windows desktops to
> drop files into a Linux directory for further processing. Some of those
> files are large, and take time for the file copy across Samba to complete.

Look into inotifywait.  It can trigger actions on file close events. Your file will be closed when samba has finished writing to it.