[Samba] Re: Problems with Excel & MS Word files (still)

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Mar 29 18:36:59 GMT 2005


On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 07:45:53AM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote:
> 
> No confirmation over here, havn't had a chance to compile a new copy -
> rolled back to 3.0.8 for the time being it's been less buggy but still have
> occasional file(s) locking up.
> 
> A little unclear here, do I need to add a patch to 3.0.13 before compiling,
> or simply add 'dos filetime = yes' to the configuration?
> 
> Lastly, does it matter if I'm not using ACL's? Just using plain old UNIX
> permissions (750/660 dir/file) and the force-group parameter for most
> shares - which works quite well thus far.

No, you don't need to add a patch. Simply setting dos filetimes should
do it.

Jeremy.


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