Sharing Files via the web

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

Don Levey wrote:
> discuss-bounces at blu.org wrote:
>> Does anyone have any experience with sharing files on the web? I'm
>> running a Windows 2k3 server and a Ubuntu server and am looking for a
>> simple method for online collaboration with MS-Office docs.
>> Thanks!
>> Matt
> 
> Matt,
> What do you mean by "sharing"?  If you're looking for something akin to
> source-code control, I seem to recall Linux Journal recently posted an
> article on Subversion via WebDAV; that may be of help to you.
>  -Don

I'm looking for something like that, too. In my case, the users want
to guarantee that only one person at a time can edit the shared Word and
Excel files, but everyone in the group can have read-only access.

I found some Windows CVS clients, but as I understand it, CVS allows
multiple users to check out a document. Something more like RCS would
suit my needs better, but I've had no luck finding a Windows RCS client.

What I'm looking for:

> The file would have to be available to only one person at a time
> (all others could access it in read-only format), and each person
> on the list above would need read/write privileges.  Can you suggest
> a way to address this that will be easy for all involved, yet prevent
> errors due to multiple document versions?

I can deploy this via Samba or via a web server; either is fine.
Is anyone familiar with a file sharing system that can do this?

If CVS were able to lock files so only one person could check a given
file out at a time, that would solve the problem. Is there a way to
make CVS do that?


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