I think the problem is, when Word opens a file, it puts an oplock on it. When word opens the file a second time, it sees that oplock and refuses to open it as anything other than read-only. I'm not sure if this is how it acts on Windows file servers, but I suspect it is.
James Dinkel Network Engineer Butler County of Kansas There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:samba- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Kincer > Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:33 AM > To: werner maes > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Samba] sharing word files > > This is standard behavior of Microsoft Word. > > werner maes wrote: > > > > hello > > > > I'm having the following problem: > > > > On a share I have a user with read-only access to word files. Another > > user has read-write access to these files. > > > > When the user with read-only access opens a word file and then the > > user with read-write access to these files opens the file, the > > read-write user has only read-only access. > > > > If the read-write user opens the word file first, then he has > > read-write access. > > > > My question: > > > > Why doesn't a user with read-write access always has these permissions? > > > > werner > > > > > > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
