samba file locking help

[fiber]

hello,

i am currently migrating my school to linux however some things need to remain in windows. to solve this i am using samba. basically, our setup has a linux web server with a windows share mounted inside the apache document root. we have to keep windows because the system is build heavily of windows permissions.

the problem is that one file, the Student_Bullitin.htm file, needs to be changed nightly but because of file locking i am not able to. for example, when i try moving the file i get:

mv: cannot move `Student Bulletin.htm' to `Student Bulletin.html': Text file busy

does anyone know of a way to fix this? sofar i have done:

kernel oplocks = yes
locking = No
(i have also tried both of them independantly with no luck either).

does anyone know of a solution to this? thanks alot!

-fiber

[kkubasik]

tis likely that the file is in use by the webserver? Is this update being done localy, or remotely?

[fiber]

the file is being edited by a 3rd windows computer using windows shares.

but that is a good point, maybe apache is infact the one locking the file and not samba?

-fiber

[kkubasik]

as long as the permissons on the file (under linux) are correct, this seems the most likly issue, but i connot ever rember a file in use error, but who knows?