[Samba] Office 97 dont open .doc files

[Ryan Novosielski]

That's the way it works, as far as I remember. I'm not familiar with fake
oplocks, but we use something similar (turning them off -- might be the
same command aliases, actually -- not sure). Office does not play well
with oplocks.

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On Wed, 21 May 2003, Joern Krebs wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have the following problem:
> (I'm not sure if have to send this message to you, or to Microsoft. ;-)
>
> Samba 2.2.3a or 2.2.8a (not restarted yet)
> Network of Windows NT 4.0 PCs and
> one Windows 2000 Server.
>
> The Windows NT Workingsations are working fine, but now I have to
> integrate an Windows 2000 Server and with this Server I have the
> following problem.
>
> When I open an XXXXX.doc-file Office 97 tells me, that the file is
> already openend by the same User. When I open an XXXXXX.dot-file
> everything is O.K. And after enabling "fake oplocks" for this share
> everything is also working fine on XXXXX.doc-Documents.
>
> I think I can live with this fake oplocks (hopefully there won't be
> two users working on the same file), but after I am responsible for
> the system this is not a satifying solution.
>
> Does anyone know the problem or has an other solution.
>
> Ciao, Joern!
>
>
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