Hi,
One of the staff came and asked me about the abilty to lock a PDF file so only one person can read it at a time from a network share.
It's considered a book so we can only have one copy open at a time .... can anyone make a suggestion as to the best way to do that

from a win 2003 server shared folder? I can get the file on to the server OK but what's the best way to share it and then so only one

person can look at it at a time .... out of 5 people. Thanks .....
Brian.

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Hello,

You can use the option "limit the number of concurrent user to". By default it's 20, you can set it to 1 and check.


Please also check the below Microsoft KB article.
Limit the Number of Users of a Shared Folder

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753521.aspx


Thanks
Zhang

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Hi Zhang,

Tried that and still two ppl were able to open the file in the folder.
Was something not done properly?
Brian

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Having never been asked to limit concurrent connections on a share I tested this out as well.
I used 2008 R2 in with a root level share, set the users limit to "1" and tried to open a .txt doc in that folder from 2 Win 7 Pro Workstations on 2 separate domain user accounts.
I was also presented no restriction and both were granted access to the file.

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