[Samba] MS Word and Samba File Permissions Problem

[Alexander Goeres]

Hello everybody!

Obviously Samba as a PDC and Fileserver for w2k clients is not as easy as I 
first thought.

Soon after setup and integration in a network a problem with the shares and MS 
Word appeared.

Any time a file is opened with M$ Word directly from a share and edited it 
can't be saved. The M$ user gets the msg that the file is write-protected and 
on the samba side the file permissions are changed to r-xr-xr-x even if they 
have been 770 before.

Here some of my configs:
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+Samba 3.0.1 on Debian 3.0

+ Groupmapping:
- Domain Admins -> root
- Domain Users -> domuser
- Domain Guests -> nogroup

+ smb.conf:
[global]
...
admin users = +root
write list = +root +domuser
create mask = 0775
directory mask = 0775
...
[share]
force create mode = 0660
force directory mode = 0770
force group = domuser

Client-side: MS Office 2000 on w2k 
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All the files/directories on this share belong to the group "domuser". 

I found a hint in the Samba HowTo collection:
http://de.samba.org/samba/docs/man/AccessControls.html#id2920312
According to that I set the sgid bit on all the directories (rwxrws---) and 
did set the "force create/directory mode" but that doesn't help.

If anyone came across a similar problem or even a solution, please help me. A 
samba fileserver. that scrambles write-rights in conjunction with M$ Word is 
pretty useless ..

Thanx in advance

Alexander

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