[Samba] file permission / ACL problems with Office files

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 06:47:33PM +0200, Eduard Panaset wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I`m experiencing major problems after having migrated from Novell to 
> SLES 9.
> 
> My server configuration:
> - SLES 9.0, running on an Intel XEON machine
> - Samba 3.0.14a, standard bin package with ACL support
> - XFS as filesystem, with ACL support
> - Users are members of max. 40 Groups
> 
> My client configuration:
> - running Windows 98 up to Windows XP SP2, everything included
> - Office 97 up to 2003
> 
> The problem itself:
> Everything is working fine, except for one thing:
> After having copied all the files from Novell to SLES and setting all the
> permissions using a Windows XP client, everything is fine.
> But as soon as an Office user changes one of the files, the file 
> permissions
> are changed, and the ACL flags are lost.
> 
> It happens only if the users are creating new or saving previously created
> Office documents. And only with Office docs, meaning XLS and DOC and PPT 
> and
> so on files.
> 
> As soon as the user creates a file using notepad or something similar, the
> problem does not appear.
> 
> If the user copies one of the files with wrong permissions, the permissions
> of the copied file are set right.
> 
> So it is obviously a problem concerning Office and samba, but I don't 
> have a
> clue where to start.

I think this is something we've fixed for the 3.0.20 pre releases.
I'd appreciate it if you could test this in your environment (although
I appreciate that you probably won't want to put this into production).

Thanks,

	Jeremy.