[Samba] 3.0.9 homes share and read-only MS Excel files

[Michael Wynne]

Don't most MS Office apps work this way? Anyway, if this is the problem 
then why wouldn't it be happening on other shares?

I'll try the setting a default acl to see what happens...

Martin Konold wrote:

>Am Dienstag, 14. Dezember 2004 21:06 schrieb Michael Wynne:
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>Hi Michael,
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>>documents and when they later attempt to edit and save the document they've
>>created it results in this message from Excel 2000:
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>Yes, this problem is well known and due to the strange way how Excel saves 
>files. Basically Excel does not overwrite the existing file but creates a 
>temporary which later gets renamed to the original name. 
>Unfortunately the file access permissions and ACLs don't get preserved...
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>The workaround is to use default ACLs. (check with the setfacl man page)
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>Regards,
>-- martin
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Michael Wynne