Problem with "nt acl support" when saving Excel or Word Files

[MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)]

Hi Michael,
what's your umask for the users in question?
Don

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Steffens [mailto:michael.steffens at hp.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 7:12
> To: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Problem with "nt acl support" when saving Excel or Word Files
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> does anyone have an idea concerning this one? Has anyone else also
> seen these symptoms?
> 
>    
> http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba-technical/2003-January/
> 041748.html
> 
> The problem described in this posting occurs here, too.
> 
> The situation: A user has read/write permissions on a Word/Excel file,
> via group membership, but file owner and group are different from
> the current UID and primary GID.
> 
> After editing and saving the file ACLs are broken, in one or the other
> way, for all of NT4, W2k, and WinXP clients, but differently 
> for all of
> them. All clients do store by creating a temp file, first.
> 
> With NT4 the final owner and group is changed to the last writer,
> but original user and group privileges don't make it into the new
> ACL. Samba log reports it got SMB_ACL_GROUP_OBJ and SMB_ACL_USER_OBJ
> for them, however. The new group has no write permissions.
> 
> With Win2k the final owner and group is changed to the last writer.
> Previous user and group permissions are correctly transferred
> to the resulting ACL. But the new owner gets write permissions
> revoked.
> 
> With WinXP owner and group remain the same as in the original file.
> Samba log reports it got SMB_ACL_GROUP_OBJ and SMB_ACL_USER_OBJ,
> but actually setting them fails with "Not owner" on the temp file.
> Nevertheless, the file group gets write permission revoked.
> 
> Being totally confused :)
> 
> Cheers!
> Michael
>