[Samba] Re: Office 2000 / Windows 2000

[Bob Crandell]

Hi,
I stopped having trouble with MS Office any version with oplocks turned off.
kernel oplocks = no
oplocks = no
level2 oplocks = no

Bob

Nick Gale (nick at thegales.me.uk) wrote:
>
>Further to this, I have upgraded to the latest Pre release as I have seen
>similar posts about this and Jeremy's advice to upgrade.
>
>It has made no difference I'm afraid.
>
>One other side to this problem that other people have posted about is that
>Excel reports a read only file as doesn't exist. i.e. you can not open a
>read only file at all.
>
>Help please!
>
>Thanks
>
>Nick
>"Nick Gale" <nick at thegales.me.uk> wrote in message
>news:bpq3f3$j0n$1 at sea.gmane.org...
>> Hi
>>
>> I have just upgraded to Samba 3.0.0 and have found a problem with Office
>> 2000 running on Windows 2000. Files opened in Word or Excel open fine and
>> can be saved once without a problem but the action of saving sets the read
>> only attribute of the file and so subsequent saves do not work. The only
>way
>> round this is to close the file, go to Explorer and select the properties
>of
>> the file and then un check the read only box. You can then open the file
>> again, but again once you save it it becomes read only.
>>
>> This only happens on Office 2K on Win 2K, other file types on Win 2K are
>> fine and office 2K files on Win 98 are fine.
>>
>> It appears to be the way Windows or Office is interpreting the information
>> about the file as the log shows the same results / actions (log level 2 &
>3)
>> as it does when opening and saving other files.
>>
>> Has anyone else found this - is this a bug?
>>
>> Your help would be gratefully received
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
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