Rishi wrote

However, the Linux client computers use smbmount to > map the shares

within their home folders, which do not

lock the files... so when two users on the network try to access the same

file, the contents of the file will be that

of the person that saved the file the last.

I think the application that you use(for e.g. kwrite..) also need's to understand File locking capabilities, which is present in Office in windows. What application do you use to access the file? For e.g. Notepad in windows will not have file locking capabilities.

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