File Lock Messages with MS Office and NetWare 5.1 SP6 or NetWare 6 SP3
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Sep 2003
Q.
Dear Ab-end: Ever since I applied NetWare 5.1 Support Pack 6 or NetWare 6 Support Pack 3 to my server, my network users of Microsoft Office are no longer notified when they open a file that another user has presently open. Formerly they received a message saying something along the lines of:
"File XYZ is already opened by user ABC. Do you want to open a read-only copy instead?"
-- Office-man Oliver in Overland Park
A.
Dear Ollie: At the server console prompt (or in the MONITOR utility), enter
Set Client File Caching Enabled=off
Then reboot the server.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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