[Samba] How to detect active users

[Malte Forkel]

Am 26.07.2011 19:08, schrieb John Drescher:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Malte Forkel <malte.forkel at berlin.de> wrote:
>> Am 26.07.2011 18:42, schrieb 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.
>>
>> So an application (like SciTE) might open a file, read and display its
>> contents, and close the file while continuing to display it. And in
>> contrast, a different application might not close the file while it is
>> displaying its contents?
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> John

Well, thanks to all of you for your help.

In summary then, it looks to me like I won't be able to reliably detect
if there is any client out there who would be disappointed if the server
shuts down.