-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> I have got a small problem. The thing is that if one use > A open a file in microsoft word without having write access > to the file the file become locked. > > >From smbstatus: > > 19717 DENY_WRITE RDONLY NONE /home/pathtofile > > The problem is that all other users can not write to the file > because it is locked. This is a problem here because some users need > to be able to write the file while other just have read access. > > You could say that it is a bug in word but on the other hand it > should really be possible to deny write whily you do not have write > permission. This would make sense but you need to confirm that NT does was makes sense. > I assume that this is a bug, i.e. no check is performed to determine > if a user really can deny write to other users. Or is this a design > flaw in samba? Please try to reproduce this against an NT/2k print server. I'll bet you see similar behavior. If not. then it is our bug. cheers, jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard ------------------------- http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team ---------------------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ---- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc "You can never go home again, Oatman, but I guess you can shop there." --John Cusack - "Grosse Point Blank" (1997) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQE+P17aIR7qMdg1EfYRAjCYAKCdsycTPqg35xccWczQ23x2dP2jygCg7ZS2 kjVOw1MwVsL0hk1Jh7JD9QU= =Z656 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
