Hello, This is because of differences between MS windows and UNIX in how they treat files. MS windows 'locks' a file when one program is using it to prevent any other program from accessing the file. UNIX programs work with a copy of the file which they then replace after use. This is what Mr. Welinder meant by 'locking' in case his answer seemed obscure.
Sorry but I don't know how you can resolve the issue. good luck, adrian On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 15:21 -0400, Mason Sanders wrote: > I am using Fedora Core 2 with version 1.2.8 of Gnumeric. I have many > files in both Gnumeric and ms excel formats on a samba share on a > network server that are modified throughout the day. Is there some > way that I can set up open office so that if one user has a particular > file open and then someone else tries to open it, it will come up with > a warning and only allow them to open it read only? MS Office will do > this with no configuration, but I don�t know if it is a feature of the > OS or the Office suite? Should I be looking to Samba or NFS to > provide this functionality? > > Thanks in advance for any insight, > > Mason Sanders > _______________________________________________ > gnumeric-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
