[Samba] samba 3.0 problems with word files and possible other
msoffice files
Christian Nabski
christian.nabski at emd.be
Thu Oct 16 18:15:12 GMT 2003
We have several problems with word files which I would really like to have
solved.
The users are getting restless and me too ...
Situation :
I can not reproduce the problem with my version and config of pc.
But we have a group of people which use windows 2000 and msoffice 2000.
They use only word with an addon which translates texts (these people are
translators).
The translator addon hooks in word and allows them to translate parts of
the word documents to other languages.
The server version is samba 3.0.0 on redhat 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18)
Symptoms :
- When they save some files they are error messages like :
disk is write protected , format the media , invalid filename , etc ...
This also happens on files which are not new and it doesn't happen always.
- Also frequently these files are staying readonly (also after closing the
file).
A wild guess :
- something is still wrong with the permissions although the unix rights
are ok (user is member of group and group has rw rights).
Maybe word still see the wrong rights and thinks it can not write. Word
does not change the file to readwrite and the file stays readonly.
Wrong guess ?
- maybe turning off all oplocks is not such a good idea ?
Notes :
- We turned of all oplocks because of a sometimes not too reliable network
was giving file corruption.
- I read the faq and saw the explanation on word.
This does not seem to be the problem ?
All files have alway the same group and the people are member of it.
So I guess the changing of rights part is ok.
I tried the force group but also tried to turn this of and use ony bit set
of the group.
Same problems.
If someone can shed a light on this we would be very grateful as I don't
see a solution for the moment.
regards,
Christian
Here is most of [global] and the problem share :
[global]
dos charset = CP850
unix charset = UTF-8
display charset = ISO8859-1
workgroup = COMPANY
netbios name = FileSRV
netbios aliases =
netbios scope =
server string = Company_name Samba %L [v%v]
interfaces =
bind interfaces only = No
security = USER
auth methods =
encrypt passwords = Yes
update encrypted = No
client schannel = Auto
server schannel = Auto
allow trusted domains = Yes
hosts equiv =
min passwd length = 6
map to guest = Never
null passwords = No
obey pam restrictions = Yes
password server = *
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
private dir = /etc/samba
passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://our.ldapserver.com
algorithmic rid base = 1000
root directory =
guest account = nobody
pam password change = No
username map =
password level = 0
username level = 0
unix password sync = No
restrict anonymous = 0
lanman auth = No
ntlm auth = Yes
client NTLMv2 auth = No
client lanman auth = Yes
client plaintext auth = Yes
preload modules = /usr/lib/libldap.so.2
log level = 2
syslog = 1
syslog only = No
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
timestamp logs = Yes
debug hires timestamp = No
debug pid = No
debug uid = No
smb ports = 445 139
protocol = NT1
large readwrite = Yes
max protocol = NT1
min protocol = NT1
unicode = Yes
read bmpx = No
read raw = Yes
write raw = Yes
disable netbios = No
acl compatibility =
nt pipe support = Yes
nt status support = Yes
announce version = 4.9
announce as = NT
max mux = 50
max xmit = 16644
name resolve order = lmhosts wins host bcast
max ttl = 259200
max wins ttl = 518400
min wins ttl = 21600
time server = Yes
unix extensions = Yes
use spnego = Yes
client signing = auto
server signing = No
client use spnego = Yes
change notify timeout = 60
deadtime = 0
getwd cache = Yes
keepalive = 300
kernel change notify = Yes
lpq cache time = 10
max smbd processes = 0
paranoid server security = Yes
max disk size = 0
max open files = 10000
read size = 16384
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE
SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
use mmap = Yes
hostname lookups = No
name cache timeout = 660
load printers = Yes
printcap name = cups
disable spoolss = No
enumports command =
addprinter command =
deleteprinter command =
show add printer wizard = Yes
os2 driver map =
mangling method = hash2
mangle prefix = 1
mangled stack = 50
stat cache = Yes
machine password timeout = 604800
add user script =
delete user script =
add group script =
delete group script =
add user to group script =
delete user from group script =
set primary group script =
add machine script =
shutdown script =
abort shutdown script =
logon script =
logon path = \\%N\%U\profile
logon drive =
logon home = \\%N\%U
domain logons = Yes
os level = 255
lm announce = No
lm interval = 60
preferred master = Yes
local master = Yes
domain master = Yes
browse list = Yes
enhanced browsing = Yes
dns proxy = Yes
wins proxy = No
wins server =
wins support = Yes
wins hook =
wins partners =
kernel oplocks = Yes
lock spin count = 3
lock spin time = 10
oplock break wait time = 0
ldap suffix = O=company
ldap machine suffix = O=company
ldap user suffix = O=company
ldap group suffix = O=company
ldap idmap suffix = O=company
ldap filter = (uid=%u)
ldap admin dn = "cn=admindn,ou=accounts,o=company"
ldap ssl = no
ldap passwd sync = no
ldap delete dn = No
add share command =
change share command =
delete share command =
config file =
preload =
lock directory = /var/cache/samba
pid directory = /var/run/samba
utmp directory =
wtmp directory =
utmp = No
default service =
message command =
dfree command =
get quota command =
set quota command =
remote announce =
remote browse sync =
socket address = 0.0.0.0
homedir map =
time offset = 0
NIS homedir = No
source environment =
panic action =
hide local users = No
host msdfs = No
enable rid algorithm = Yes
read list =
write list =
printer admin =
force user =
force group =
read only = Yes
create mask = 0744
force create mode = 00
security mask = 0777
force security mode = 00
directory mask = 0755
force directory mode = 00
directory security mask = 0777
force directory security mode = 00
inherit permissions = No
inherit acls = No
guest only = No
guest ok = No
only user = No
hosts allow = 127., 192.168.10.0/255.255.255.0
hosts deny = ALL
nt acl support = Yes
profile acls = No
map acl inherit = No
afs share = No
block size = 1024
max connections = 0
min print space = 500000
strict allocate = No
strict sync = No
sync always = No
use sendfile = No
write cache size = 0
max reported print jobs = 0
max print jobs = 1000
default devmode = No
default case = lower
case sensitive = No
preserve case = Yes
short preserve case = Yes
mangle case = No
mangling char = ~
hide dot files = Yes
hide special files = No
hide unreadable = No
hide unwriteable files = No
delete veto files = No
veto files =
hide files =
veto oplock files = /*.SEM/
map system = No
map hidden = No
map archive = Yes
mangled names = Yes
mangled map =
browseable = Yes
blocking locks = Yes
csc policy = manual
fake oplocks = No
locking = Yes
oplocks = No
level2 oplocks = No
oplock contention limit = 2
posix locking = Yes
strict locking = Yes
share modes = Yes
include = /etc/samba/samba_shares.cfg
available = Yes
volume =
fstype = NTFS
set directory = No
wide links = Yes
follow symlinks = No
dont descend =
magic script =
magic output =
delete readonly = No
dos filemode = No
dos filetimes = No
dos filetime resolution = No
fake directory create times = No
vfs objects =
msdfs root = No
msdfs proxy =
[problem_share]
path = /home/problem_share
valid users = @admins, @users
admin users = @admins
force group = users
read only = No
create mask = 0660
force create mode = 0660
force directory mode = 0770
strict allocate = Yes
browseable = No
and the directory rights :
drwxrwx--- 8 root users 4096 oct 16 14:30 problem_directory
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