[Samba] Re: Office 2000 / Windows 2000

[Nick Gale]

Sorted it!

You need to set nt acl support = no

the default in 3.0.0 is yes.

Hope this might help someone else with the same problem.

Cheers

Nick


"Nick Gale" <nick at thegales.me.uk> wrote in message
news:bpr5tj$7rq$1 at sea.gmane.org...
> Further to this, I have upgraded to the latest Pre release as I have seen
> similar posts about this and Jeremy's advice to upgrade.
>
> It has made no difference I'm afraid.
>
> One other side to this problem that other people have posted about is that
> Excel reports a read only file as doesn't exist. i.e. you can not open a
> read only file at all.
>
> Help please!
>
> Thanks
>
> Nick
> "Nick Gale" <nick at thegales.me.uk> wrote in message
> news:bpq3f3$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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