What about giving the user lock permissions (k)? On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:47:54AM -0500, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > Dave Botsch wrote: > > Hi. > > > > With Excel 2003 on Windows, if a directory is readonly > > (say via acls), Excel cannot open the .xls document. The error is "Cannot > > access the file "filename". The file may be readonly or encrypted." > > > > Now, if I copy the file to the desktop or make the directory rw, excel can > > open > > the file. > > > > Mac Excel / Openoffice Windows & Linux do not seem to have this problem. So, > > the problem seems to be w. Windows Excel. > > > > Any thoughts as to what Excel is trying to do that's failing and any > > workarounds? > > > > thanks. > > Excel is attempting to open the file in exclusive mode and that requires > a write lock. The write lock is denied when the user doesn't have write > privileges. > > There was a problem in 1.5.12 and earlier where a file marked read-only > via the UNIX mode (0200) bit could not be opened. This was fixed in 1.5.13. > > Jeffrey Altman
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