File locks working strangely with PADS CAD files stored on TrueNAS SMB shares

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I use Mentor PADS circuit board CAD, and for the last couple of TrueNAS versions, we are unable to reliably store files on a TrueNAS SAMBA share. The CAD software seems to use some sort of proprietary file locks and after an initial save of a file, I cannot save again. It transitions to "save as" when I try. If I try to save to the same filename, it says "file locked". It appears that file handles persist too long, or update too slowly for this program. I can keep saving under incrementing filenames. This is maddening for several users, and I need to migrate my CAD workers off TrueNAS servers because I can't figure this out. Works fine on Windows servers and I do not have durable handles enabled. I also notice that when looking at directories on the NAS with File Explorer, changes seem slow to register, and I have to manually refresh a lot, when creating new directories, for example. The network is plenty fast. I doubt that network speed is the problem. NFS shares have same problem as with SAMBA.
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Running TrueNAS-12.0-U6 on an HP DL380 G7 server with 24G RAM. Dual Xeon.
Quad GB NICs. Active-Directory based LAN with Windows 2016 servers doing DHCP and DNS.
 

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Looks like others have similar trouble.
I hope some TrueNAS SAMBA expert can help figure out a solution.
 
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