Is there ANYWAY to configure Samba on OS X Server to dissallow a Mac and a PC to have the same word file open at the same time?<BR><BR>Hypothetical:<BR><BR>If a Mac user has a Word file open (which ...
A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...
I've got 2 computers, a workstation running XP Pro, and a server running 2K Server.<BR><BR>I've created a simple batch file which runs on the server. It's scheduled to run daily. It copies a few key ...
To avert the problems associated with the file locking mechanism, POSIX introduced record locking via the fcntl() syscall (the pre-POSIX lockf() and flock() syscalls provide the same functionality but ...
Microsoft has a new utility to the PowerToys toolset that will help Windows users find the processes using selected files and unlock them without requiring a third-party tool. PowerToys 0.64.0 also ...
There are a couple of situations where files on drives may be locked, which will prevent them from being directly removed. As such, even though you have them in the trash and choose the option to ...