>>No it doesn't work. Microsoft closed the case as it was drawing to much negative attention, don't you love their logic/business ethics.
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>IMO, this is worse than it seems. Record locking worked since DOS 3.x or thereabouts, in Novell, RPTI, Lantastic and eventually in NetBEUI. It worked all the way into the Vista, and now they have screwed it up - and it's now four years since the Vista came out, and they are sweeping it under the rug.
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>Let's face it - you want a file server, forget Microsoft. Install any Linux on any old box, configure Samba on it, and keep your files there.
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>Most of the technicians nowadays (who have probably been to courses based on materials from Redmond) test the network by saving a Word document on another machine - if it works, your network works. Record locking? C'mon, that's so eighties/nineties, nobody does that anymore.
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>Except the, let's see, competition to SQL server like Fox, Access (fill the rest of the list with what you know)...

Like Fox and Access? No competition there.

Maybe Oracle, Sybase, etc, but they don't use file and record locking like Fox or access.