On Tuesday 10 May 2005 20:18, Mason Sanders wrote:
> I am using Fedora Core 2 with version 1.1.3 of open office.  I have many
> files in both openoffice and ms office 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?

I think that there is an environment variable which you can set
SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING before you run OOo oon Lininx which may help. However 
I do not know if MSWord understands this file.

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