Excel 2003 and sub-second timestamps

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Dec 22 00:51:48 GMT 2004


On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 06:36:06PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have come across a problem with Excel 2003 and Samba 3.0.x where, when
> saving an existing file, you get the following dialog box up:
> 
>   ! The file '<filename>' may have been changed by another user
>     since you last saved it. In that case, what do you want to
>     do?
> 
> Has anyone seen this?
> 
> By comparing what is returned by Win2K and Samba at the point at which the
> error occurs, it seems that the only difference is that Win2K returns
> sub-second time stamps and perhaps that Win2K is reacting to one of the
> time stamps that we synthesize.

What Samba version. I fixed an issue related to this recently (it was
the sticky modtime problem).

Jeremy.


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