I have run into this with various Office documents.
When you save an Excel file it will delete the file and rewrite a brand
new file with the same name. If you don't have sufficient permisisons
to write the file AND set various attibrutes the save process will
fail. You will probably see this with MS PowerPoint as well-
although it only does the delete/fullwrite on every 5th save or so.
MS Office applications like to change the permissions of a file when
saving/creating files. So even if you can create a file in the
directory you may still have this problem.
You probably do not have this problem with notepad.
I am running Samba on Solaris 10, with ZFS, which supports a variety of
ACL's. In addition to requiring read/write privledges on the
directory, users also need permissions to write attributes.
You may need to use the "getfacl" command to compare permissions on
documents before and after saving them. (or seeing the permissions in
the Windows file explorer.) You may need to experiment with setting
the permissions on the parent directory. Or with your acl parameters
in smb.conf
On 07/27/2010 04:19 PM, Dustin Krysak wrote:
Hi there,
I have a samba install on centos 5 with the latest version of samba
(samba-3.0.33-3.28). There were two files that just disappeared. The users
description is as below:
I had worked on them – both were excel files that linked to each other. I saved
it as a different name than the original I worked from (which I found to be
very “buggy”) – the originals are still in their respective folders and can be
opened. The next morning we opened the documents on Denby’s computer and first
it wouldn’t let her save it – not even “save a copy”, I got messages the day
before it disappeared saying it was locked for editing – but I was the only one
who had used it and it was closed. I had to close excel and re-open then it
worked.
After Denby tried to edit the docs from her computer I came back to my computer
to complete the work and it was no longer in the folder and when I tried to
open it from excel I get the message (as per attached). I tried to do a simple
search for it and it told me the shortcut has been changed or moved so it no
longer works properly.
In my conf, the files resided on the "laverde" share.
# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = CONAME
netbios name = coname
server string = (%L)
wins support = Yes
name resolve order = wins bcast hosts
passdb backend = tdbsam
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u
delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u
add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g
delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g
add user to group script = /usr/sbin/groupmod -A %u %g
delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/groupmod -R %u %g
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d /var/lib/nobody %u
# Note: The following specifies the default logon script.
# Per user logon scripts can be specified in the user account using pdbedit
logon script = %U.bat
# This sets the default profile path. Set per user paths with pdbedit
logon path =
logon drive = H:
logon home = \\%L\%U
domain logons = Yes
os level = 35
preferred master = Yes
domain master = Yes
idmap uid = 15000-20000
idmap gid = 15000-20000
#mac hacks
follow symlinks = yes
unix extensions = no
#veto files = /.DS_Store/._.*/DesktopFolderDB/Network Trash
Folder/resource.frk/TheFindByContentFolder/TheVolumeSettingsFolder/
delete veto files = true
hide dot files = yes
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S
read only = No
browseable = No
[netlogon]
comment = Network Logon Service
path = /shares/netlogon
admin users = root
guest ok = Yes
browseable = No
[main]
comment = Share for the users in the main group
path = /shares/main
users = @main
force group = main
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0771
writeable = yes
[laverde]
comment = Share for the users in the leverde group
path = /shares/laverde
users = @leverde
force group = leverde
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0771
writeable = yes
Any ideas?
These files never made it into our backups as this happened prior to the actual
backup.
Thank you.
D
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