topic Content locking between Explorer and CIFS in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/content-locking-between-explorer-and-cifs/m-p/248811#M201941 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I currently use Alfresco Community 3.2r.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have configured it to be able to use CIFS and manage content locking.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>See </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Content_Locking" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Content_Locking</A><SPAN> (I've modified network-protocol-context.xml).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When two users are concurrently accessing the same file via CIFS, content locking works well: the second user is in read-only mode.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>But, content locking doesn't work properly in the following case:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN> - The user 1 opens a document via CIFS;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN> - User 2 makes a check out of the same document in Explorer;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN> - User 2 updates the working copy and makes the check in Explorer;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN> - The user 1 updates a document, save and close.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN> In this case, you lose the changes made by the user 2.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>As a matter of act, I have the following questions:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN> - Is this a bug?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN> - Is Alfresco 3.2r able to manage content locking with users using Explorer and users using CIFS, NFS or FTP?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN> - Is Alfresco 3.2r only able to manage content locking with users using CIFS, NFS or FTP (which seems to be mentioned in the Wiki page I have provided above)?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you in advance for your answers.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:02:54 GMT mlagneaux 2011-10-07T10:02:54Z Content locking between Explorer and CIFS https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/content-locking-between-explorer-and-cifs/m-p/248811#M201941 Hello,I currently use Alfresco Community 3.2r.I have configured it to be able to use CIFS and manage content locking.See http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Content_Locking (I've modified network-protocol-context.xml).When two users are concurrently accessing the same file via CIFS, content locking works Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:02:54 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/content-locking-between-explorer-and-cifs/m-p/248811#M201941 mlagneaux 2011-10-07T10:02:54Z Re: Content locking between Explorer and CIFS https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/content-locking-between-explorer-and-cifs/m-p/248812#M201942 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I got an answer on french forum which says that content locking is only manage in AVM part of Alfresco.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:56:37 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/content-locking-between-explorer-and-cifs/m-p/248812#M201942 mlagneaux 2011-10-11T12:56:37Z