Read-only files, but why?

Wingate, Steve [IBM NON J&J] SWingate at NEUUS.JNJ.com
Wed Aug 18 21:43:33 GMT 1999


I'm relatively new to Unix in general so perhaps I shouldn't be offering any
help but here goes nothing. I see you have world perms on the files but what
about the DIRECTORY itself? Just a thought. 



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Aaron Rainwater [SMTP:aar at cypress.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 18, 1999 1:56 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject:	Read-only files, but why?
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I've been running Samba 2.1.0-prealpha as our
> PDC and fileserver.  Lately, some users have
> been noticing problems with files being opened
> as "Read-only", even when the permissions for
> the UNIX file are global everything.  Also, I
> checked the status of the connections under
> Samba and the line for the open file reads:
> 
> 28341  DENY_WRITE RDONLY     EXCLUSIVE+BATCH
> 
> The line reads like this even during the few
> times that the file does NOT open as "Read Only".
> 
> Here's the status for the same file, when I
> open it when it's already opened (which *should*
> create a "Read Only" opening:
> 
> 28341  DENY_WRITE RDONLY     NONE
> 
> The problem has only occurred with powerpoint
> so far.  It does NOT occur when the file is
> being opened from the local hard-drive.
> 
> Oh, and Samba is set up for write access to
> the share in question.
> 
> Any ideas out there?  Is this just a problem
> with 2.1.0-prealpha?  This issue is pretty urgent,
> since it could cause me to have to give up the
> great PDC features of 2.1.0-prealpha in exchange
> for the stability of 2.0.5a.
> 
> Thanks...  :)
> 
> -- 
> Aaron Rainwater
> CADC Intern


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