On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 13:34 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 01:23:14PM +0200, steve wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 11:51 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:30:56AM +0200, steve wrote: > > > > 4.0.9 as a file server > > > > Hi > > > > We have a rw folder where we can share files. If a user opens a file, I > > > > would like it to be locked so the other users can't open and edit it at > > > > the same time. > > > > > > > > Is this possible? > > > > > > Open the file with a smb client with value 0 for the > > > sharing argument. This will block access for other SMB > > > clients. > > > > > > Volker > > > > > Hi > > Could you give me pointer as to how to do that? Is it an option in > > smb.conf? Surely, we would want to do this with all files on a network > > no? > > > > I noticed that LibreOffice does it by producing a lock file. Is there > > anything in Samba that will do that with all files, not just office? > > This is a feature of the SMB protocol that a client can > explicitly request. It's called share modes. There is no > option where you can enable this for all open files. This > would not make sense, as very often a single client opens a > file more than once simultaneously. > > What is your exact use case for this feature? > School classes often have projects with files that many students will need to edit. We are surprised that there is no way for a user to find out if a file is already open. It causes chaos for us unless we do all our work in LibreOffice.
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