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How to lock a shared file
Name: nseawater Date: February 28, 2007 at 08:21:11 Pacific OS: Windows Server 2003 CPU/Ram: Dual core CPU Product: Dell
Comment:
How do I configure an Excel file that's stored on the file server to lock when another user has already opened the file. Basically, I want the second user to get a message that the file is already in use and locked for editing.
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: February 28, 2007 at 08:27:34 Pacific
Reply:
That should be automatic. The second user should get the message that the file is in use and can be opened as Read-Only.
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Response Number 2
Name: nseawater Date: February 28, 2007 at 08:31:18 Pacific
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It's not happening. When a user clicks on an Excel file on the server, and then another user opens the same file - they don't get the lock messaging.
Is there a way I can verify that it is enables / checked on?
Thanks,
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Response Number 3
Name: nseawater Date: February 28, 2007 at 09:00:12 Pacific
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Let me re phare my question - It seems that file locking mechanism is not working on a DFS environment. For example, when user A opens a document and user B opens the same document - user B does not get a message that the file is already in use user B and only view the document but no editing is allowed.
How do I configure it so that user B will be locked out of the file and can only view the document?
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