Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2010-02-17 07:56:29 UTC
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<p wrap="">Any ideas?<br>
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<p>Give the "read only" users read-write access to the directories, and
to the (hidden) lock files in those directories, because <em>that is
what your application wants</em>. As M. Pegasus said, <em>this
behaviour is dictated by your application</em>. It is writing username
information into hidden lock files in those directories as users open
and close the documents therein. If users have read-only access to the
directories and files, your application is unable to do this, which is
why your application is unable to display that username information.
As Microsoft KnowledgeBase article 277867 says, users require
read-write access to directories that contain documents. Once again:
This is an application, with an <em>application-level</em> locking
mechanism, failing because <em>its locking mechanism requires</em>
read-write access to directories and the hidden locking files therein
in order to operate fully.</p>
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<blockquote cite="mid:***@sterlingplans.com"
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<p wrap="">Any ideas?<br>
</p>
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<p>Give the "read only" users read-write access to the directories, and
to the (hidden) lock files in those directories, because <em>that is
what your application wants</em>. As M. Pegasus said, <em>this
behaviour is dictated by your application</em>. It is writing username
information into hidden lock files in those directories as users open
and close the documents therein. If users have read-only access to the
directories and files, your application is unable to do this, which is
why your application is unable to display that username information.
As Microsoft KnowledgeBase article 277867 says, users require
read-write access to directories that contain documents. Once again:
This is an application, with an <em>application-level</em> locking
mechanism, failing because <em>its locking mechanism requires</em>
read-write access to directories and the hidden locking files therein
in order to operate fully.</p>
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