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. Please reply to [email protected] only -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
