File in share folder on server but it can only read by one person at a time

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Jennifer Hung

My school is running WinXP clients. The server is Win
2000 server. I have checked the permissions for the
folders. Everyone should have read and write acess to the
file. However, the file could only be open by one person
at a time. If the second person wants to read, the first
person need to close the file. Why???
 
"Jennifer Hung" said:
My school is running WinXP clients. The server is Win
2000 server. I have checked the permissions for the
folders. Everyone should have read and write acess to the
file. However, the file could only be open by one person
at a time. If the second person wants to read, the first
person need to close the file. Why???
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If anyone has write access to a file, no one else can access it. To
allow multiple people to access it, the file must only give read-only
access to all of them.
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file. However, the file could only be open by one person
at a time. If the second person wants to read, the first
person need to close the file. Why???
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Hi Jennifer
You don't fully describe the problem but it probably depends on what "share
mode" the file was opened in. This is nothing to do with permissions but is
defined by the programmer that wrote the software that you're using to view
the file.
 
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