Re: Basic permissions questions


Subject: Re: Basic permissions questions
From: Basil Hussain (basil.hussain@specialreserve.net)
Date: Mon Jan 15 2001 - 03:56:35 EST


Hi,

>> 2. Is it normal for two users to be able to open the same document at the
>> same time? This leads to a "last person to save wins" situation which could
>> be sort of tragic.

Well, that's why people invented version control systems, like CVS and MS
SourceSafe... :)

> I saw another posting about file locking earlier today. I've never had a
> problem with it. If two users open up the same Word file on the server,
> for example, the second person to access it is asked if they want to open
> it read-only since the file is already in use by someone else. *shrug*

It sounds to me like that's maybe just MS Word doing that itself somehow.
Through various versions of Netatalk installed on our servers I've never
seen this happen using something like BBEdit or Photoshop on shared files.

Regards,

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Basil Hussain (basil.hussain@specialreserve.net)



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