[Linux] Re: Using Samba

[Danny Rathjens]

Brian Faris wrote:
> I think that is how it is supposed to behave and you should get the
> same behaviour if the file was stored on a windows server. When one
> user open the file as read/write it is locked so other users can only
> open it in read-only mode. If this were not the case, one user could
> open it and make some changes and at the same time another user could
> open it and made some changes, but the last user to save it would
> over write the changes of the other user. Correct me if I am wrong.
 
Right, you'd have to use a revision control system to allow several
people to make changes at the same time.  The revision control system
takes care of merging the differences and letting the user see any
conflicts if they changed the exact same part.

This .sig of yours is pretty crazy in length, Brian. 8^)
 
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