Up until the end of 2005, our office worked on a number of Macs networked together without an actual "server". We just installed our server and are now ready to migrate our data onto its share points, but I do not want to do so until I know that FILE LOCKING works the way we need it to.
With the AFP share points I've set up on the server, multiple users on other "client" machines can open the same CAD file simultaneously and then save it as well (assuming permissions are set to RW; it's not a permissions issue), and never know that the file was in use by someone else. Obviously, this means every collaborative effort will result in file corruption / lost work!
It doesn't look to me like there is any sort of file locking at all going on; what I've read here and elsewhere suggests that this feature is only supported for SMB shares, which will not mount on our Mac desktops. Is there any third-party way to enforce locking or at the very least issue warnings to users when they try to open a file that someone else has opened?
With the AFP share points I've set up on the server, multiple users on other "client" machines can open the same CAD file simultaneously and then save it as well (assuming permissions are set to RW; it's not a permissions issue), and never know that the file was in use by someone else. Obviously, this means every collaborative effort will result in file corruption / lost work!
It doesn't look to me like there is any sort of file locking at all going on; what I've read here and elsewhere suggests that this feature is only supported for SMB shares, which will not mount on our Mac desktops. Is there any third-party way to enforce locking or at the very least issue warnings to users when they try to open a file that someone else has opened?
