Weirdness: MS Access Files on Samba NT Dom

[Jamie ffolliott]

I've noticed this problem has been around in 2.1prealpha since January '99,
the 1st time we upgraded from 2.0, so it must have been introduced at some
time in the main branch.  I've been waiting for the "merge from hell" from
Jeremy to see if that contains a fix.

Also noted other preculiarities:
Some programs like Photoshop and Excel may give you an error when opening
two different documents at a time.  I can't remember the exact wording of
the error, but it was something like "can't open this document, it's already
open".  I don't see anything in the logs that would seem related, but not
sure what to look for.  Any suggestions anyone?

These aren't errors due to write permissions, and our smb.conf configuration
hasn't changed very much (except when necessary) between previous releases
of samba that worked well with Access and Photoshop.

Jamie ffolliott
Engineering Society, Queen's U

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-ntdom at samba.org [mailto:samba-ntdom at samba.org]On Behalf Of
> Aaron Knauf
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 10:06 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: Weirdness: MS Access Files on Samba NT Dom
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> Works for me (standard Samba 2.0.3, configured as PDC, also worked on
> 2.0.2).  Access creates its .ldb file quite happily.  I hate to point out
> the obvious, but do your users have write access to the directory
> containing the database file?  Is the share read-only? Of course, the
> DIRECTORY must have the w permission set for the appropriate user/group to
> enable them to create the lock file.
>
> If the database need not be written to, you could also try making it
> read-only (this allows multi-user access without designing the DB to cope
> with that).
>
> Aaron Knauf
> Technical Consultant
> Computing Edge Limited
> Auckland
> New Zealand
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> Todd Stiers <tas at microdisplay.com> on 18/03/99 13:52:54
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> Please respond to tas at microdisplay.com
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> To:   Multiple recipients of list <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
> cc:    (bcc: Aaron Knauf/AKL/CEL/compedge)
> Subject:  Weirdness: MS Access Files on Samba NT Dom
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> Hi,
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> I have come across a very strange error since upgrading my servers
> to Samba NT Dom 2.0 (late January).
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> Apparently, MS Access 97 files can no longer be opened and run
> from the Samba fileservers. I can copy the files to NT local machines,
> they work, I can put them on NT shares, MS Access works, and I
> can put them on samba 1.9x versions and it works.
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> Whats changed? Was it/is it intentional?
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> Currently, only windows 95/98 machines seem to be able to open
> the MS Access docs stored on Samba NT Dom servers.
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> Access seems to create a locking file on real NT and real NT shares,
> but on neither of the Samba (NT Dom and regular).
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> HELP!
>
> Thanks
> -Todd
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