On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:35:54PM -0700, Anoop P.A. wrote: > > Hi list, > > Any body implemented cross protocol file locking before? Any pointer > will help me a lot > > Hi Volker, > > CIFS -> CIFS locking is not working as expected. It failed for me in > following scenario. > > 1. Opened a share using browser in Win XP machine. > 2. Copied a word document (*.doc) to share. > 3. Mounted CIFS share in a Ubuntu (8.04 LTS desktop). > 4. Opened word document from Ubuntu using openoffice 2.4 > 5. Tried to open same file in Win XP but it didn't open and got error > message "No proper file permission" (I expect word document to open in > read only mode). > > However if I open document first in Win XP and then using Open office > working as expected i.e. Document getting opened in read only mode.
Well, that's because Unix does not know about so-called share modes that Microsoft Office uses. OpenOffice 3 will solve this cross-platform using a lock file, so if you are using that on both Windows and Linux it should work fine. Volker
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