Subject: MS-Word (Mac) guest-multi-access conflict
From: Christian Fischer (Christian.Fischer@etec.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 03:23:29 EST
Hello all,
I've been enjoying netatalk (netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3) for a while now.
Currently I'm
trying to use our Linux-Server (SuSE 6.3) for MS-Word/Excel 98
(Macintosh)
workgroup templates. Until now we used a Macintosh as server for that
purpose (trouble with too many users - therefore the step to a
Linux-Server).
Since we switched to Netatalk, only one person at the same time can open
MS-Word templates or documents - although users login as guest and have
read-only access.
In the log-files, the problem with document/template accesses can be
traced ("errno" is set during the execution of ad_open.c):
Feb 7 17:42:45 ihepchw2 afpd[19967]: afp_openfork: ad_open: Permission
denied
This log-entry occurs, when I'm opening other file types or files in
other programs multiple times, too, but the reaction to that "error" can
be very different. "Non-document or template" files (e.g. ascii, html)
could be open from different Macs under MS-Word at the same time. Canvas
(a drawing program), e.g., reports which user currently has opened the
document and offers to open a copy. Multiple-opening of Word-Documents
unfortunately ends with an error message.
Does anyone have an idea about what to do?
Thanks very much and greetings,
Christian Fischer
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