Re: Sharing Gnumeric Files on a network

[Adrian Custer <acuster nature berkeley edu>]

Hello,

This is because of differences between MS windows and UNIX in how they
treat files. MS windows 'locks' a file when one program is using it to
prevent any other program from accessing the file. UNIX programs work
with a copy of the file which they then replace after use. This is what
Mr. Welinder meant by 'locking' in case his answer seemed obscure. 

Sorry but I don't know how you can resolve the issue.

good luck,
adrian



On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 15:21 -0400, Mason Sanders wrote:
> I am using Fedora Core 2 with version 1.2.8 of Gnumeric.  I have many
> files in both Gnumeric and ms excel formats on a samba share on a
> network server that are modified throughout the day.  Is there some
> way that I can set up open office so that if one user has a particular
> file open and then someone else tries to open it, it will come up with
> a warning and only allow them to open it read only?  MS Office will do
> this with no configuration, but I don´t know if it is a feature of the
> OS or the Office suite?  Should I be looking to Samba or NFS to
> provide this functionality?
>
> Thanks in advance for any insight,
>
> Mason Sanders 
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