Samba on RHEL 5.4 opens read only msoffice docs

[Richard Sharpe]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Inderpal Singh BAWA
<inderpal.bawa at st.com> wrote:
> Hello Support
>
> We are facing this strange issue of Samba running on RHEL 5 update 4 that any ms word/excel doc opens as read
> only mode(pop-up says it is locked for reading by another user whereas that is not the case) and also the performance is too slow.
> It was previously working fine on RHEL update 8.
>
> Appreciate ur help in giving the possible direction for solution.

Are you running Samba on a GPFS cluster with the GPFS vfs by any
chance? There is a bug in the GPFS vfs that has those symptoms if you
store the DOS attributes in XATTRs ... it is fixed in 3.5.9 I believe
but still exists up to 3.5.8 (I think).

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Regards,
Richard Sharpe