topic Re: Excel file locking issue in Network and Storage Protocols

Excel file locking issue

baijulal — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:22:37 GMT

Hi.

Have a CIFS share/ shared excel sheet by 7-10 busines users. Often the file get locked and storage admin need to execute "lock break –h host –p cifs" to release the locks.

Some time this affects the unsaved data. Is there a workaround/solution to prevent from this happening? appreciate your feedbacks.

Thanks in advance

Re: Excel file locking issue

AGUMADAVALLI — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:38:41 GMT

Please make sure the security style is cifs only not mixed mode.

options set to :

cifs.oplocks.enable	on
cifs.oplocks.opendelta	0

thank you,

AK G

Re: Excel file locking issue

aki_ahola — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:58:04 GMT

I have same problem and my netapp options are as above. Is there something else I can check or do?

Thaks, Aki

Re: Excel file locking issue

peter_lehmann — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:33:12 GMT

Sometimes a Virus Scanner can be part of this issue, try to disable scanning of xls and see if this helps.