On Thursday 27 November 2003 03:40, Nick Gale wrote: > I was having problems with Offline folders and Samba 2.2.7 (running on RH8) > and upgraded to 3.0.1Pre and the problem appears to have gone away. I'm not > using ACL's either. My problem with offline folders was not on writing > them to the local machine but on writing them back when it went back on the > network.
Hmm OK.. I tried a quick test with a crash box and Samba 3.0.0 and it seemed to work fine. I used XP Pro for the test as the person with Win2K pro is only in the office once a week (hence the need for offline stuff :). Hopefully I can upgrade our main file server without too much wailing and gnashing of teeth. > Note that 3.0.0 has a bug that allows certain Office docs - Word and Excel > to write over a file that is already open on another machine, hence why I > went for 3.0.1Pre. I also found that the default settings on 3.0.1 are "nt > acl support = yes", you would need to change that to no. Hmm OK. That isn't a huge issue for me, so maybe I'll just take my chances 8-) > Hope this helps Yes, thank you for the help! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
