[Samba] How to detect active users

[Chris Weiss]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Malte Forkel <malte.forkel at berlin.de> wrote:
> Currently, I'm not even sure Samba preserves the kind of state
> information required to detect the usage scenario  I'm interested in. Is
> there any concept of an "open file" in Windows/Samba, after all? May be
> it depends on the application used to open the file?

yes, it depends on the application.  If the app closes the file and
leaves the share, samba honors that.  if the app keeps the file handle
open, samba does too.