Excel 2003 and sub-second timestamps

[Steve Holstead]

I too have seen this. I have only seen it with XP SP2 applied.

When I remove SP2 the problem goes away. I intend to look further but have 
not had the time....

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, 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.
>
> Regards
> -----
> Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
> sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
>
>