Microsoft Project 2000
Cindy Hodgins Burian
chodgins at predict.com
Tue Nov 7 17:22:39 GMT 2000
David Collier-Brown wrote:
>
> Cindy Hodgins Burian wrote:
> > We are running Samba 1.9.18p10 and the main box we push files to is an
> > NT Terminal Server 4.0. Until Project 2000, we've had no problems.
> > This is what's happening now: Joe creates and saves a project on an NFS
> > file system pushed by Samba.
>
> Can you reproduce this on a test share NOT using
> nfs? That would eliminate nfs problems from the
> debugging... (step 1)
>
Unfortunately, no. We only share nfs files.
> Indeed, is the reproducible, or does it only happen
> occasionally?
>
It happens every time without fail.
> Jane opens this project, makes changes,
> > tries to save it, and it refuses. Gives a popup box saying basically
> > You don't have permission to save this file. When you look at the file
> > permissions through Unix, everything looks fine. Even if you do a chmod
> > 777, it still fails.
>
> That's interesting: I assume you're doing so from the
> command line on the server, so the result **should**
> be a file which Samba can write.
>
> However, Windows people often use a "rename" scheme
> to keep around unchanged and backup copies of the
> user's work (eminently reasonable: Windows dies a lot)
> You may need to change the permissions of .bak or other
> odd files.
>
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch05_03.html
>
> Try setting force create mode as the second step, as
> suggested in
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch05_03.html
>
> Then see what files Project creates as the third, whether or
> not the second yields any results.
>
> --dave
Here is a piece of my smb.conf:
[nt]
path = /home/eng/NT
writeable = yes
force group = research
create mask = 775
force create mode = 0660
I just added the force create mode and tried this scenario again. Still
got the same result. Any more ideas??
Cindy
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