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application sharing
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It mostly depends upon the application itself. Not all applications are multi-user friendly.
Sometimes apps will "lock" files while one person uses it. If a second user comes along he can't access the file until the other user is done. I've seen this mostly with applications that use some sort of database to store information. Locking out all but one user is done to make sure only one person is modifying the file/record at that particular time. Sometimes you can read the locked file while it's in use by someone else, but you can't do anything that would make any changes to it.
Sometimes apps will "lock" files while one person uses it. If a second user comes along he can't access the file until the other user is done. I've seen this mostly with applications that use some sort of database to store information. Locking out all but one user is done to make sure only one person is modifying the file/record at that particular time. Sometimes you can read the locked file while it's in use by someone else, but you can't do anything that would make any changes to it.
The O/S version is irrelivent. It depends on the app and how it was developed. A way around this is to use terminal services on 2k server. You can install the app on the server and give the term serv client to the users that you want to have access to. Make sure you do some locking down on the term server so any joe shmo with the client cant connect and start deleting things.
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