-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Drescher wrote: >> 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
Hello John I've tried but it did not work for me . Frank -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpOATEACgkQ6f7UMO5oSsVF5gCgmCK9yqESqWSuT9NjcxanFL5s 9iQAn37vYlySmZJTteXD/E/aXsCbJ0jm =VJOC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
