User with read only access can deny write.

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Ola Lundqvist wrote:

> I have got a small problem. The thing is that if one use
> A open a file in microsoft word without having write access
> to the file the file become locked.
> 
> >From smbstatus:
> 
> 19717  DENY_WRITE RDONLY     NONE             /home/pathtofile
> 
> The problem is that all other users can not write to the file
> because it is locked. This is a problem here because some users need
> to be able to write the file while other just have read access.
> 
> You could say that it is a bug in word but on the other hand it
> should really be possible to deny write whily you do not have write
> permission.

This would make sense but you need to confirm that NT does was makes 
sense.

> I assume that this is a bug, i.e. no check is performed to determine
> if a user really can deny write to other users. Or is this a design
> flaw in samba?

Please try to reproduce this against an NT/2k print server.  I'll bet you 
see similar behavior.  If not. then it is our bug.




cheers, jerry
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