Setting file permissions on remote server

2010-05-21 Thread Bob Earp
I have an app that reads/writes from/to a data file on a remote server. So far there's only been one user of the app, but I wish to allow a number of users to use the app in different locations, which means I have to consider the case where more than one user wants to write to the file at the

Re: Setting file permissions on remote server

2010-05-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Bob. Nice name. If you set the file to read only before you open it, no one will be able to write to it, even the first user. If one user opens it read/write then the second can only open it read only. The OS will prevent anything else from happening. One of the reasons for using