![]() Apple uses AFS ("Apple File Sharing"), which is based on TCP/IP (what the Internet uses). SMB stands for "Server Message Block," a Microsoft invention for Windows machines to talk to each other. Personally, I don't see why you are on SMB sharing if everybody in your organization is on a Mac, as SMB is ONLY for Windows machines and it REALLY cludges up your network. This is Apple's fault for not following the SMB protocol properly. Take a look at the greyed out file and see if it has a REALLY odd date (1980, Jan 1, 1984, etc.) If so, then the file was never closed properly (usually updating the name of the file, it's permissions, etc.) and the file table hasn't been updated. This has NOTHING to do with file locking (trust me, I've been doing Mac networking since 1983) and EVERYTHING to do with simultaneous connections to the same folder. ![]() If you need to allow more than ten computers to connect to your Mac at once, use macOS Server, which is available in the App Store." THIS is the root of your problem, not file access locking/permissions (as Allen alluded to). "With macOS file sharing, you can allow up to ten users to connect to your Mac at once using File Sharing. What Apple has to say about file sharing: ![]()
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