Question : Permission issue? Files locking after user accesses it.

From what I am told it is only happening to excel files. User"A" can access and modify the file with no problem (it is happening to multiple files, not just one). When user "B" tries to access it, it comes back with an error that the file is in use, it can be opened in read only mode. They then log everyone off, at this point user "B" can access and modify the file.

I think they are all 2000 or XP clients running on Netware 6. They are using office 2003.

I have not seen the problem first hand, but I will tomorrow. I am thinking there may be an issue with file permissions that lock the file but do not release it for others to use until logoff.

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

Answer : Permission issue? Files locking after user accesses it.

If you are running SP3 or later, make sure oplocks is off.

SET CLIENT FILE CACHING ENABLED=OFF
SET LEVEL 2 OPLOCKS ENABLED=OFF

Also, what client are you using?  4.83 sp3 or later.  If you don't need the functionality of 4.9 yet, I would recommend to stay away until the rest of the hiccups get worked out.

This killed us the first time we service packed our NetWare server.  We thought, how neat.  Well the next day, bascially all of our apps stopped working on the server.