Excel 2003 and sub-second timestamps

[Richard Sharpe]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> 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).

OK, I didn't actually test with 3.0.8+. I will build a more recent version
and check.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
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