> Since we started our new Samba + LDAP backend server yesterday > some (not all) PC we have a problem with Word and Excel files > that are marked "read-only" when users are trying to open > them from their Samba network shares. > > This happen ONLY for *.doc and *.xls files , if we open > and save a *.html file with Word it works ... > > Any info/help greatly appreciated. > > Thank you >
This probably is due to the fact that when Office saves a file it creates a new file it creates a temp file then deletes the old file then renames the temp file to the same name as the old file and in this case the os magically sets the permissions of the renamed temp file to what the old file had. The problem is that Linux does not have this weird filesystem behavior built in so you have to emulate this with samba. I believe some versons of samba required a create mask of 2777 to get this to work. BTW, this is discussed many times in the archives. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
