Files not deleted from SAMBA share

[Robert Thorneycroft]

We are using Samba version 2.2.5 and sharing a LVM filesystem from an HP9000 running HPUX 11.00 (hostname tst01) to a win 2k server. We execute a script from the win2k server which copies all the files to another server and then deletes them from the share. Unfortunately, the command does not seem to delete all if the IDOC* files from the share. Does anyone know why this might be, and how to resolve it.

Thanks
Robert Thorneycroft

[RAC_1]

Can you do dir \\tst01\edi\D11\our\IDOC* ??

Are the permissions are right for all IDOC* files? So that the user can delete them.

[Robert Thorneycroft]

Hello Anil,

Yes you can cd to the directory, and all the files have the same permissions. Most of the IDOC* files get deleted by the command, but there always seem to be a few that get left behind.

[RAC_1]

May be those files are being used by applications or programs.

If you have lsof(list open files utility) on unix box check if you have any files open. (All IDOC files), if some ar eopen note the files names and then try deleing the files as are doing.

You can also check open files with fuser command. fuser -fu IDOC*

[RolandH]

You can see the locked files if you start "smbstatus" from your binary dir in your samba configuration.


Roland

[RAC_1]

also check smbstatus. May be files are locked.

[Darren Prior]

Hi Robert,

A log level of 2 set in the [global] section of your smb.conf should provide enough info in the logs to identify what's going on here.

Out of interest, is there any pattern to the files that are left behind, in terms of their filenames or timestamps?

regards,

Darren.