From: Mike '/m' 

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:32:04 -0500, "Frank Haber"
 wrote:

>>The solution was to turn off "optimistic locking".
>
>I remember having to turn of "opportunistic locking."  I
forget what operating
>system, database, and planet that was on, but I do remember the verbiage - it
>sounded like a combination of Public Health plague containment, Las Vegas, and
>CompSci.  Or maybe I was just easily amused.

Opportunistic locking was a feature of MS LAN Manager.  If my hazy
recollection is correct, it allowed a single client to take complete
control over a file on the file server, performing local caching and such,
so long as no other client needed access to that file.

 /m

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