samba - Jan 2007 - sharing word files

hello

I'm having the following problem:

On a share I have a user with read-only access to word files. Another 
user has read-write access to these files.

When the user with read-only access opens a word file and then the 
user with read-write access to these files opens the file, the 
read-write user has only read-only access.

If the read-write user opens the word file first, then he has 
read-write access.

My question:

Why doesn't a user with read-write access always has these permissions?

werner


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This is standard behavior of Microsoft Word.

werner maes wrote:
>
>     hello
>
> I'm having the following problem:
>
> On a share I have a user with read-only access to word files. Another 
> user has read-write access to these files.
>
> When the user with read-only access opens a word file and then the 
> user with read-write access to these files opens the file, the 
> read-write user has only read-only access.
>
> If the read-write user opens the word file first, then he has 
> read-write access.
>
> My question:
>
> Why doesn't a user with read-write access always has these permissions?
>
> werner
>
>
> Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
>

I think the problem is, when Word opens a file, it puts an oplock on it.
When word opens the file a second time, it sees that oplock and refuses
to open it as anything other than read-only.  I'm not sure if this is
how it acts on Windows file servers, but I suspect it is.

James Dinkel
Network Engineer
Butler County of Kansas
 
There are 10 types of people in the world:  those who understand binary,
and those who don't.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces+jdinkel=bucoks.com@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-
> bounces+jdinkel=bucoks.com@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Kincer
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:33 AM
> To: werner maes
> Cc: samba@samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] sharing word files
> 
> This is standard behavior of Microsoft Word.
> 
> werner maes wrote:
> >
> >     hello
> >
> > I'm having the following problem:
> >
> > On a share I have a user with read-only access to word files.
Another
> > user has read-write access to these files.
> >
> > When the user with read-only access opens a word file and then the
> > user with read-write access to these files opens the file, the
> > read-write user has only read-only access.
> >
> > If the read-write user opens the word file first, then he has
> > read-write access.
> >
> > My question:
> >
> > Why doesn't a user with read-write access always has these
permissions?
> >
> > werner
> >
> >
> > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
> >
> 
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