Hello Everyone-

We have Netware 6 file server.  All of our network clients run version 4.83 sp1 of the Novell client software.

User1 running Windows 2000 opens a Microsoft word file with Word 2002.  User1 has read-only access to this file based on only having File-Scan and Read rights to the directory in which the file resides.

File opens for User1 and Word reports that it has opened as a read-only file as expected.

Next, User2 (actually the Novell admin user) on a separate Windows 2000 based system also running Word 2002 tries to open the SAME file.  User2 is able to open the file but is forced into read-only mode.

The file is marked SHARABLE using,

flag filename.doc +sh

and,

flag *.*

in the directory confirms that the flag share is set.

The problem is that user2 can't open the file for editing while another user is simply viewing the file in read-only mode.  This doesn't seem right to me.  If user1 has no ability to change the file (because of his read only access) why does the file need to be locked?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Chris