[Samba] sharing word files

[Aaron Kincer]

Yes, it is how it works on Windows file servers.

James A. Dinkel wrote:
> I think the problem is, when Word opens a file, it puts an oplock on it.
> When word opens the file a second time, it sees that oplock and refuses
> to open it as anything other than read-only.  I'm not sure if this is
> how it acts on Windows file servers, but I suspect it is.
>
> James Dinkel
> Network Engineer
> Butler County of Kansas
>  
> There are 10 types of people in the world:  those who understand binary,
> and those who don't.
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: samba-bounces+jdinkel=bucoks.com at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-
>> bounces+jdinkel=bucoks.com at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Kincer
>> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:33 AM
>> To: werner maes
>> Cc: samba at samba.org
>> Subject: Re: [Samba] sharing word files
>>
>> This is standard behavior of Microsoft Word.
>>
>> werner maes wrote:
>>     
>>>     hello
>>>
>>> I'm having the following problem:
>>>
>>> On a share I have a user with read-only access to word files.
>>>       
> Another
>   
>>> user has read-write access to these files.
>>>
>>> When the user with read-only access opens a word file and then the
>>> user with read-write access to these files opens the file, the
>>> read-write user has only read-only access.
>>>
>>> If the read-write user opens the word file first, then he has
>>> read-write access.
>>>
>>> My question:
>>>
>>> Why doesn't a user with read-write access always has these
>>>       
> permissions?
>   
>>> werner
>>>
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