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My friend administers a mixed PC / Mac network.
When one of her Macintosh-using clients opens a file within a folder on her Windows 2008 R2 server, that folder is locked and other clients are unable to open that folder.
This problem did not show up on any systems prior to her binding the Macintosh systems to her Active Directory.
Clues?
This is a single bump for the weekday, daytime crowd.
Come on, Dopers, don’t let me down!
I don’t have any idea as to a solution, but any time I’ve had a question about an Apple product I’ve found people at the Apple Stores to be very friendly and willing to help. Also quick to find out if they don’t know the answer themselves. I believe each store even has a hotline to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino for access to Apple’s engineers, programmers and so forth. I would suggest calling your nearest Apple Store to see what they have to say.
I encountered a somewhat similar problem some time ago; I have a similar mixed environment with a Windows 2008 server. The problem is, I’m not exactly sure which fix solved the problem or if we are having the same problem.
In our case, the problem appeared to be a Mac MS Office issue where a hidden temp file was created when we opened a Word file. This temp file stayed open and active for some time even after we closed the visible file we were working on. As long as the temp file was open, no one could move or rename the folder, though we could still open the folder to view/open/edit other files.
I read lots of stuff about potential problems with a mismatch in UID that stopped the temp file from being removed more quickly. Ultimately, the problem went away without me being able to trace it to anything specific, but I believe an update to MS Office fixed it.
This is probably unhelpful, but if I can at least bump it up, someone else might know more.
Does this discussion help?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2499238?start=0&tstart=0
That didn’t help.
We’re experimenting with disabling oplocks.