I have a client that shares a file with his secretary. He copies it to the server. She puts it on her desktop (win 7?), edits, and puts a copy back on the server. So they use the file server as a holding ground. For software-related reasons, they don't open the copy of the file that is on the server (it must be opened locally).
When they do this, they cannot actually replace the old file. Instead, a new file is created. So: file.xzy file(2).xyz file(3).xyz This is what the directory on the file server ends up looking like b/c they can't overwrite each other's file.xyz. The odd thing is that they could do the overwrite (which they desire) before the client bought a new computer, appx 2 weeks ago. The permissions of the file show ownership of the names of the people who own them (in this case, Brad, Lisa). I assume this is because they have their first names as profiles on their windows desktops. My file server is an old version of Ubuntu. I use Samba, but the file server is totally open -- no one needs to have a samba username to map to and write to the shared drives. How can I make it so they are able to overwrite each other's files? Thanks, Kari -- Kari Matthews o: 630.457.1600 c: 630.448.0865 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
