Excel 2003 and sub-second timestamps

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 05:09, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 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?

Yes, it is exactly the problem Jeremy have cured, experienced with Excel
2003 and Win XP SP1 and SP2

> > > 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.

The fix is in 3.0.10, temporary workaround that seem working is:
veto oplock files = /*.xls/

Simo.

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