[Samba] Strange behaviour with M$ WORD 97 under Win 2K

[Kristyan Osborne]

Check the permissions on the file under linux. also check your share in the smb.conf file, make sure it hasn't got writable=no etc.
 
Cheers
 
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Kristyan Osborne - IT Technician
Longhill High School
01273 391672

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Jean-Paul ARGUDO [mailto:jean.paul.argudo at pack-solutions.com] 
	Sent: Fri 24/01/2003 13:45 
	To: samba at samba.org 
	Cc: 
	Subject: [Samba] Strange behaviour with M$ WORD 97 under Win 2K
	
	

	Hi all,
	
	I searched thru excellent http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&r=1&w=2
	(samba ML archive...) answer to my questions.
	I asked Google too.
	
	Both doesnt know about my problem. That's why I finaly decided to polute
	samba ML :-(
	
	Here's the environment: a Linux Box under Debian Woody (stable, nothing
	compiled by hand EXCEPT KERNEL (aacraid issue..)):
	
	master:~# uname -a
	Linux master 2.4.20 #2 SMP Mon Dec 2 18:49:26 CET 2002 i686 unknown
	
	master:~# smbd -V
	Version 2.2.3a-12 for Debian
	
	The server is a DELL PowerEdge 1650 with Raid Mirror on two 18Gb disks.
	
	Clients : DELL Inspiron 4150 under windows 2000 SP2
	           M$ OFFICE 97 (Word, Excel only)
	           M$ EURO PATCH applied (fonts with EURO symbol...)
	               
	All works fine with Samba except:
	
	(1) profile and netlogon directories are stil in user homes. *I KNOW* I
	have to re-read the samba howto collection, the soluce is in. Will be
	fixed in a few. I already have netlogon ant profile shares enabled, but
	client just dont use it ... You'll see this in my smb.conf above...
	
	(2) _the real topic of this mail_ :
	
	My users work with M$ Office 97, Word and Excel, only.
	
	With Word 97, frequently, when a user tries to open a file in the
	"public" share (see smb.conf above), he has a message telling him he is
	on READ ONLY mode.
	
	With smbstatus, I clearly see the user is on RDONLY mode on this file.
	
	The problem is that nobody is using this file |-( except him.
	
	I really suspect Word 97 (client side then) to be the origin of the
	problem. I noticed Word 97 creates a temp file on opening, It is surely
	used to notice others users the file is accessed?.. *but* when the file
	is opened, this temp file isn't there?..
	
	So?? Whats up??? Why a such message? really Dunno.
	
	I think I'll have to dig around samba caching issue? or any timeout issue??
	
	I'll really be glad if you could help me in any way. Thanks a lot!
	
	Here's smb.conf, where you'll notice I disabled oplocks, because of data
	corruption (filled a report in samba's bugtrack a month ago) with
	excel/word files...  :
	
	[global]
	netbios name=MASTER
	workgroup=CPTA
	security=user
	encrypt passwords=Yes
	
	domain logons=yes
	logon script=logon.bat
	
	os level=64
	domain master=yes
	local master=yes
	preferred master=yes
	wins support = yes
	name resolve order = wins hosts lmhosts bcast
	oplocks=no
	
	#interfaces=127.0.0.1 eth0
	#bind interfaces only=Yes
	#invalid users=root
	
	hosts allow=192.168.0. 192.168.1.
	
	log level=1
	
	#guest account=nobody
	printer driver file=/home/public/driver/printers.def
	server string=Controleur du domaine CPTA
	
	[netlogon]         --dunno why unused :-( RTFM: Samba HOWTO Collection
	path=/var/samba/netlogon
	read only=yes
	public=no
	
	[profiles]         --dunno why unused :-( RTFM: Samba HOWTO Collection
	path=/var/samba/profiles
	read only=no
	create mask = 0600
	directory mask = 0700
	
	
	[homes]
	browseable=No
	writeable=Yes
	guest ok=no
	comment=Repertoire personnel      --means "personal home" in fr
	create mask = 0600
	directory mask = 0700
	valid users = %S
	
	[public]           --share where read only word issues occurs
	path=/home/public
	browseable=Yes
	writeable=Yes
	guest ok=yes
	read only=no                 -- redundant with writeable=yes, I know :-)
	force user=nobody
	comment=Repertoire commun       --means "public home" in fr
	
	[pdf]
	path=/tmp
	printable=yes
	guest ok=yes
	print command=/usr/bin/printpdf %s
	lpq command=
	lprm command=
	printer driver=HP C LaserJet 4500-PS
	printer driver location=\\%h\printer$
	
	[printer$]
	path=/home/public/driver
	guest ok=yes
	read only=yes
	
	
	<<EOF>>
	
	note: "--" comments not in original file
	
	--
	Jean-Paul ARGUDO
	
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