Strange read-only status upon opening a document

I have a MS Excel spreadsheet on the network. No one has it opened. Despite that when a person, who has all the rights for this file is trying to open it using Star Office 8 calc, it gets opened as read-only.
What could cause that?
Thank you,
Mike

I've seen that before on Windows machines accessing SMB shares. Haven't found the root cause yet, but a reboot of the Windows box always seems to make the problem go away for awhile...

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