Weirdness: MS Access Files on Samba NT Dom

[Andrew Perrin - Demography]

Anything in the log file when this happens?  Turn debug up to 3 or 4 or so
and see if you get informative errors.

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Andrew J. Perrin - aperrin at demog.berkeley.edu - NT/Unix Admin/Support
Department of Demography    -    University of California at Berkeley
2232 Piedmont Avenue #2120  -    Berkeley, California, 94720-2120 USA
http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin --------------------------SEIU1199

On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Todd Stiers wrote:

> Thanks for the reply,
> 
> All the permissions were set appropriately (it has worked pre 2.0)
> and I even opened them further:
> 
> 
> [dbdie]
>    comment = MDC DIE Tracking Database
>    path = /testing1/dbdie
>    public = yes
>    writable = yes
>    create mask = 0775
>    valid users = @users
>    write list = @users
>    force group = users
> 
> 
> 
> The directory permissions:
> 
> drwxrwxr-x   2 cmullin  users        1024 Mar 18 10:20 dbdie
> 
> 
> The file permissions:
> -rw-rw-r--   1 tas      users     2484224 Mar 17 17:17 testit.mdb
> 
> 
> 
> I then downloaded and compiled the latest CVS (19990318)
> (Version 2.1.0-prealpha) of the NT DOM and I still get the same result -
> MS Access is not putting down the lock file.
> 
> -Todd
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Aaron Knauf wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >
> > Todd Stiers <tas at microdisplay.com> on 18/03/99 13:52:54
> >
> > Please respond to tas at microdisplay.com
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have come across a very strange error since upgrading my servers
> > to Samba NT Dom 2.0 (late January).
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Whats changed? Was it/is it intentional?
> >
> > Currently, only windows 95/98 machines seem to be able to open
> > the MS Access docs stored on Samba NT Dom servers.
> >
> > Access seems to create a locking file on real NT and real NT shares,
> > but on neither of the Samba (NT Dom and regular).
> >
> > HELP!
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Todd
> >
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> > Todd Stiers
> > Director of Systems Administration
> > The MicroDisplay Corporation
> > http://www.microdisplay.com (510)243-9515x129
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> Todd Stiers
> Director of Systems Administration
> The MicroDisplay Corporation
> http://www.microdisplay.com (510)243-9515x129
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