2009/2/6 M Henri Day <[email protected]> > 2009/2/6 Richard <[email protected]> > > > Russell Butler wrote: > > > >> Richard wrote: > >> > >>> Richard wrote: > >>> > >>>> It used to be that when a file was being used from a file server at a > >>>> work station, should someone else open the same file, editing would be > >>>> impossible to do, as the file was already open on another workstation. > >>>> > >>>> I have only updated my workstation to version 3 and the other machines > >>>> in the office use 2.4. I can now open a file from the file server and > edit > >>>> this file while it is being worked on at another work station causing > >>>> serious issues on the final document. > >>>> > >>>> Is this a known issue and obviously as with the auto save on the > >>>> previous v 3 we would suggest as serious. > >>>> > >>> > >>> No response from anyone from OOo? Im not sure we are not going > backwards. > >>> > >> > >> Hi Richard > >> > >> Did you see M Henri Day's response on 31 January? > >> > >> http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=191792 > >> > >> you can also browse the thread to see other responses. > >> > >> Russell > >> > > > > Ya... saw that response and a few others, these though are comments and > > acknowledgements of the problem, do OOo people read this? should they not > > give some response, or am I being unreasonable? and before you tell me, I > > know what this forum is about and access this from my newsgroup not a web > > site, I just would expect some official response for such a problem. > > > Perhaps someone with a network could check to see if this phenomenon is > also > encountered on the OOo-dev 3.1.0 ? I agree with Russell that given the > nature of the problem, it merits a comment from OOo developers. Most > importantly, we need to know if this type of involuntary «collaboration» on > a network is a bug or by design and if the latter, if it can be disabled > when not desired.... > > Henri >
Hmmm... I don't remember the other answers, but... did you make sure the files like ".~lock.filename.ods# " can be created on the server? (look at the first dot). I haven't tried, but they are supposed to be created in order to prevent others to use the same file when it's being edited. Right? These are my 2 cents worth attempt to help. Ely.
