Samba and PowerPoint files on Win2K client read-only

[James Nord]

Lena,

A lot of Win2000 specific bugs have been fixed in 2.0.7.

I would suggest upgrading to 2.0.7 and see if the problem still exists.

Regards,

	/James

Lena Zelman wrote:
> 
> We are running Samba 1.9.8a on Unix SCO Open server. It was working fine
> with Win95 and Win NT clients. But now we have 2 clients running Win2000.
> And  when they try to open  PowerPoint files that reside on the server it is
> read only. Permissions on PowerPoint files are open for read and write for
> everybody. If I change ownership of the file as client username then no
> problem. File will open for writing also.
> In the  log file  it has error message:
>     unknown command type (SMBunknown): cnum=36 type=160 (0xA0)   Unknown
> message type 160!
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thank you,
> 
> Lena
> 
> [global]
> status=yes
> dead time = 2
> oplocks = false
> preserve case=yes
> username map = /usr/local/samba/lib/username.map
> time server = true
> guest account = nouser
> lm announce = false
> local master = no
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY
> 
> [usrs]
> path=/p
> writeable=true
> force create mode=0775
> force directory mode=0777
> share modes=yes
> hide dot files=yes
> 
> [homes]
> guest ok=no
> path=/p
> writeable=true
> force create mode=0775
> force directory mode=0777
> share modes=yes
> hide dot files=yes

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