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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:s.mehrbrodt@gmail.com" title="Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) <s.mehrbrodt@gmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB)</span></a>
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title="NEW - Document locking on Linux cifs mount blocking files for MSO"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131401">bug 131401</a>
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<td>https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131388
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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - Document locking on Linux cifs mount blocking files for MSO"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131401#c6">Comment # 6</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - Document locking on Linux cifs mount blocking files for MSO"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131401">bug 131401</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:s.mehrbrodt@gmail.com" title="Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) <s.mehrbrodt@gmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB)</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Massimo B. from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=131401#c5">comment #5</a>)
<span class="quote">> (In reply to Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=131401#c4">comment #4</a>)
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> > Tools->Options->Advanced->Open Expert configuration.
> > Then search for "UseDocumentSystemFileLocking" and change to false.
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> This makes a difference. Now MSO can open the file as usual and does not get
> any information about other people having opened that file.
> This would not prevent others from changing the file in the background but
> is currently better here for not blocking other team members.
> Is it advised to keep this disabled or does it just point to a bug in
> Libreoffice?</span >
The bug might as well be in the CIFS implementation. Not easy to say.
I guess it's safe to disable this setting, as the overwriting is prohibited by
the lockfile.
Maybe it even makes sense to disable this setting by default? Looks like it
does not work reliably on network shares. See also <a class="bz_bug_link
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title="UNCONFIRMED - File save fails when network document is opened on another machine"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=131388">bug 131388</a>.</pre>
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title="NEW - [META] Bugs and enhancements involving lock files or file locking"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114300">Bug 114300</a>] [META] Bugs and enhancements involving lock files or file locking
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