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We have Mac (10.8.5) users who share files on a file server. They are connected to the file shares via NFS. The users are using Creative Suite 5.5. When a user opens a file, they get the appropriate ".idlk" lock file. For example:
~test~0kjyv(.idlk
TEST.indd
As far as I used to know, this used to prevent anyone else from opening that same file. But now, multiple users can open the same file. Whoever makes the first save seems to win. The next person who tries to save the file will get the following error:
"Another user has modified the Adobe InDesign document TEST.indd. To prevent damage to the document, InDesign is shutting down."
InDesign then locks up and starts beachballing. The only option is to force quit.
I tried updating the users to the latest version of CS5.5 InDesign which is 7.5.3.
Has anyone else encountered this?
Thanks,
Rob

Maybe it is something to do with using NFS? Our Mac's are bound to AD, and use NFS shares because they have issues with SMB/CIFS. They are connecting to an EMC NAS. All of the users have read/write permissions to the files.
I tried the same process on a test AFP share that I created from a Mac OS X Server, and then it works as expected. When the second user tries to open the file, they cannot, and they get an error message:
"Cannot open the document TEST.indd. You may not have permission or the document may be open already."
Why doesn't it behave this way on the NFS share?
The permissions look comparable for each:
NFS share:
-rw-rw-r--@ 1 ADuser ADgroup   6823936 Oct 29 16:17 TEST.indd
-rw-rw-r--@ 1 ADuser ADgroup        0 Oct 30 09:37 ~test~0kjyv(.idlk
AFP share:
-rw-rw-r--@ 1 admin    staff          6823936 Oct 30 09:33 TEST.indd
-rw-rw-r--@ 1 admin    staff               0 Oct 30 09:35 ~test~0kjyv(.idlk

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