On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Stefan Maly wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I recently stumbled across something odd. When opening MS-PowerPoint > files (.ppt) > on our samba servers it seems that with certain versions of MS-Office > the file date is > being changed while just viewing the slides. There is no change involved > and > MS-PowerPoint is closed immediately after viewing without saving or > anything. > > We run Samba on S.u.S.E LINUX. > We use both XFS and ReiserFS. > The effect holds true for both the versions 2.2.3a and 2.2.0a of smbd.
Please update to samba-2.2.8a. There are many bug fixes since 2.2.3a even. - John T. > > It should be noted that on the share concerned we work with both the > force user and > the force group option. > > The change of the file date does happen if it is being accessed by > MS-Office 2000 > and does not happen if it is Office XP. > > The change of the file date does not happen on filetypes .XLS .DOC .TXT > .ZIP etc. > > + Have any of you encountered the same? > + Is there a workaround/solution (except not to use the product causing > trouble of course ...)? > + How does Samba handle the four different dates (created, last access, > last write, change) > in a read operation (just update last access, right?)? > > T.I.A. > Stefan > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
