Applies to ONTAP 9 CIFS Issue Client Error: The process cannot access the file <path to file> because it is being used by another process. Identified file and client / process holding the conflicting ...Applies to ONTAP 9 CIFS Issue Client Error: The process cannot access the file <path to file> because it is being used by another process. Identified file and client / process holding the conflicting lock via ONTAP CLI: ::> vserver locks show Note: How to identify filenames and clients locking files in ONTAP 9 - NetApp Knowledge Base