Multiple users on a network share: how to manage versions, prevent overwriting?

Setting up file shares on a Mini Server with 10.8 server.
How can a group of users share access to a volume, while managing versions of a file (other than saving with a new file name) and preventing two users editing a file simultaneously and overwriting each other's work?

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You can try enabling export local cache. This might also meet your request.
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