[Samba] Odd file locking issue with one of our SMB servers....

[Greg Byshenk]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 10:02:36PM +0000, Gary Greene wrote:
> Samba version: 3.6.15 on openSUSE 12.2.
> 
> We?ve got a series of file shares exported from one of our storage
> systems. Periodically, we?ve a user from our accounting department
> that is getting errors from Excel that the file she?s trying to open
> is opened by someone else (it isn?t) and prompts her to either open
> it as read-only, or to cancel the open operation. When this occurs,
> she hits cancel, then she tries again immediately following this,
> and then it works without issue.
> 
> This seems to occur once or twice a day for her, from what she?s
> reporting.

I'm not sure if the same is true in your case, but here is a pointer
to a solution to a problem that I had:

	<http://www.jamescoyle.net/how-to/340-samba-the-process-cannot-access-the-file-because-another-process-has-locked-a-portion-of-the-file>

You don't say whether or not you are also using NFS (we are, and I
know that it's not ideal, but this is temporary while we rearrange
some file serving), but setting "strict locking = no" solved my 
problem.


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greg byshenk  -  samba at byshenk.net  -  Portland, OR USA