Re(3): A script to tell which workstations are using Samba shares
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 64.6.40.50]
on October 03, 2007 07:40 PM
I use the SWAT utility that is commonly available with SAMBA. All of that information is neatly presented under the configuration tab.
It also allows you to kill off the samba process which owns the locked files -- even if the windows machine has abandoned the connection. That can happen if the client dies suddenly and leaves its locks behind. Usually, if the samba process is killed, the windows client will re-create the connection, although it is wise to be careful with this, because it could leave a corrupted access database or a confused client that found a mis-matched version of a dll.
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Re(3): A script to tell which workstations are using Samba shares
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 64.6.40.50] on October 03, 2007 07:40 PMIt also allows you to kill off the samba process which owns the locked files -- even if the windows machine has abandoned the connection. That can happen if the client dies suddenly and leaves its locks behind. Usually, if the samba process is killed, the windows client will re-create the connection, although it is wise to be careful with this, because it could leave a corrupted access database or a confused client that found a mis-matched version of a dll.
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