[Samba] Excel doesn't open read-only files on SAMBA share

[Murthy Kambhampaty]

Samba version: Samba 3.0 rebuild from SRPM on RedHat 8.0 w/XFS.


I ran into this problem (which sounds a lot like Bugzilla Bug 51) when
copying files from a CD-ROM to a Samba share on a W2K client.
Double-clicking on the file name in an Explorer window gives the file not
found error, but File->Open from Excel, and double-clicking the the filename
in the file-open dialog-box works fine. The filenames all seem to be in
plain English, though some have spaces and hyphens, so the non-ASCII
characters issue doesn't seem to be present here?

Removing the read-only flag from the client-side (the user has full
permissions on the folder and contents) fixed the problem.

It's low priority, of course, but it would be nice to see this fixed.

Thanks,
	Murthy