FAT partition served by samba => ms word can't save modifications
Jean-Francois LE CAM
JeanFrancois.LeCam at altiplano.fr
Thu Sep 27 09:39:05 GMT 2001
I am having problems with ms word 2000 SR-1 that does not want to save the
modifications I apply to samba-served .doc files ("disk must be
write-protected").
It looks like the problem described with nfs-mounted samba served
directories, but my shared directory is not nfs-mounted.
It is a FAT disk (because my server has dual-boot), which seems to be the
cause of the problem.
This fat disk entry in /etc/fstab :
/dev/hda5 /mnt/data vfat
gid=1009,uid=13308,setgid=1009,setuid=13308,rw,suid,umask=002 0 0
So all the files of /mnt/data are owned by my user "jojo" (uid 13308 gid
1009), the only windows user accessing the files through samba.
Below is my smb.conf, I have two shared dirs that are configured in the same
way : /mnt/data and /tmp.
The first one is FAT, the other one is ext2.
ms word will work fine in /tmp, not in /mnt/data.
I am running samba-2.0.10 (Redhat RPM samba-2.0.10-2) over a RedHat 7.1
system.
Thanks for any suggestion (except I shouldn't use ms word :-)
Jean-François LE CAM
[global]
workgroup = fly
locking = no
preserve case = yes
case sensitive = no
short preserve case = yes
server string = Kite Samba Server
hosts allow = 10.230.1.11
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 0
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
interfaces = 10.230.1.12/24
remote browse sync = 10.230.1.11
remote announce = 10.230.1.11
dns proxy = no
[data]
comment = Data on Kite
path = /mnt/data
valid users = jojo
write list = jojo
public = no
writeable = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0765
[tmp]
comment = Tmp on Kite
path = /tmp
valid users = jojo
write list = jojo
public = no
writeable = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0765
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