[Linux] Re: Using Samba

[kerry]

OK, when I connect to the server, click on the document, Open Office 
starts to open it, but just fades into the sunset.

Danny Rathjens wrote:
> 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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