[Samba] Can't 'save-as' from MS Word

[Lawrence Walton]

Gene Huft [Gene.Huft at ci.seattle.wa.us] wrote:
> Samba Gurus,
> I've got a Solaris box running samba 2.0.7.  A couple of users on
> Windows XP clients are reporting problems saving files from within MS
> Word, and Wordpad to the samba share, which of course is a mapped drive.
> They get an error saying "This is not a valid file name"....  These XP
> boxes do have the reg hacks plainpassword.reg and signorseal.reg
> installed.   The work around is to save a file to a local directory and
> then copy the file over to the samba drive via windows explorer, but
> that s*cks!   
> 
> Any ideas?  this is driving us bananas.
> 
Why not upgrade to a more modern version of samba?
2.2.6 is currently the latest stable.



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