Word97 failing to write to share

Michael Harlow Mike.Harlow at utas.edu.au
Sat Mar 27 09:09:37 GMT 1999


Help. I am having trouble getting word97 to write a file to a share.
I dont remember this sort of problem in the past. Excel97 works fine,
I can drag-n-drop files into the share, and notepad will open/write
and save-as just fine. I can create folders Word97 however either
says that there is a permissions problem, or to check that the disk
is still in the drive.

NT4 SP4 to Solaris 2.5/Samba 2.0.3, Word97-SR2

This is what smbstatus returns initially.
****
Samba version 2.0.3
Service      uid      gid      pid     machine
----------------------------------------------

No locked files

Share mode memory usage (bytes):
   1048464(99%) free + 56(0%) used + 56(0%) overhead = 1048576(100%) total
*****

Then after I browse to the share within the Word Save-As dialog box...

Samba version 2.0.3
Service      uid      gid      pid     machine
----------------------------------------------
mike         mike     sggadm   26515   federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar
27 17:45:01 1999

No locked files

Share mode memory usage (bytes):
   1048464(99%) free + 56(0%) used + 56(0%) overhead = 1048576(100%) total

*****

Then after I click OK (to save) and word97 brings up the error message
I have this...

Samba version 2.0.3
Service      uid      gid      pid     machine
----------------------------------------------
mike         mike     sggadm   26515   federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar
27 17:45:01 1999
mike         mike     sggadm   26515   federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar
27 17:45:48 1999
mike         mike     sggadm   26515   federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar
27 17:45:48 1999
mike         mike     sggadm   26515   federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar
27 17:45:48 1999
mike         mike     sggadm   26515   federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar
27 17:45:48 1999

Locked files:
Pid    DenyMode   R/W        Oplock           Name
--------------------------------------------------
26515  DENY_NONE  RDWR       NONE
/home/mike/sambatest/~WRD0000.tmp   Sat Mar 27 17:45:47 1999
26515  DENY_NONE  RDONLY     NONE             /home/mike/sambatest/Test.doc
  Sat Mar 27 17:45:48 1999
26515  DENY_NONE  RDONLY     NONE             /home/mike/sambatest/Test.doc
  Sat Mar 27 17:45:48 1999

Share mode memory usage (bytes):
   1048224(99%) free + 256(0%) used + 96(0%) overhead = 1048576(100%) total

I now have a zero-length file (correct name)
and a non-zero length word temp file.

drwxrwxrwx   3 mike     sggadm       512 Mar 27 19:06 ./
drwx------  36 mike     sggadm      3072 Mar 27 18:50 ../
-rw-r-----   1 mike     sggadm     13824 Mar 27 18:46 Book1.xls
drwxr-x---   2 mike     sggadm       512 Mar 27 19:06 NewFolder/
-rw-r-----   1 mike     sggadm         0 Mar 27 17:45 Test.doc
-rw-r-----   1 mike     sggadm      1858 Mar 27 18:45 Text Document.txt
-rw-r-----   1 mike     sggadm     19456 Mar 27 17:45 ~WRD0000.tmp

*************
   create mask           0740
   force create mode     0400
   directory mask        0750
   force directory mode  0500

global SMB.conf locking options are set to defaults:
i.e. kernel oplocks = yes, locking = yes, ole lock comp=yes, oplocks = yes
strict locking = no, share modes = yes.

share smb.conf locking options are also at default:
blocking = yes, fake oplocks = no, locking = yes, oplocks = yes
strict locking = no, share modes = yes

************

This is the line from the log file
Share violation on file (1,4,2,26515,sambatest/~WRD0000.tmp,fcbopen = 0,
flags = 2) = 0

I can generate a log file of any level showing this in action very
easily.

Does anyone have a solution or set of smb.conf options I should use ?

Thanks, Michael

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Michael J Harlow                        email : Mike.Harlow at utas.edu.au
Computer Systems Officer, School of Geography and Environmental Studies, 
University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-78, Hobart Tasmania 7001, Australia.
Phone : (03) 6226 2212 or 0419 585 308         fax  : (03) 6226 2989
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