[Samba] Office 2007 saves files as read only on samba shares?

[Robin Edgar - Tripany]

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Friday, January 26, 2007, 4:53:40 PM, schreef jij:

> I've been running the same configuration for a couple of years now,
> and since I've upgraded to Office 2007, MS Word and MS Excel files
> save to my samba shares as -r-------- even when they are opened as
> being chmod 777. Files I create/edit using other editors or windows
> explorer are put onto the share with the correct permissions.

> My conf looks like this:
> [global]
>         workgroup = WG
>         server string = WG machine
>         netbios name = WG
>         obey pam restrictions = Yes
>         password server =
>         passdb backend = smbpasswd
>         encrypt passwords = true
>         guest account = nobody
>         passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>         passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n
> *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
>         smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
>         log level = 2
>         log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>         max log size = 1000
>         time server = Yes
>         server signing = auto
>         socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_THROUGHPUT
>         add machine script = /usr/sbin/adduser --ingroup machine
> --system --home /dev/null --no-create-home --force-badname %u
>         logon path =
>         logon home =
>         logon script = %Gnetlogon.bat
>         domain logons = Yes
>         preferred master = Yes
>         domain master = Yes
>         wins proxy = Yes
>         wins support = Yes
>         ldap ssl = no
>         panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
>         hosts allow = 192.168.0.
>         profile acls = Yes
>         dos filetimes = Yes

> [here]
>         comment = here
>         path = /export/home/here
>         valid users = user1, user2
>         valid users = @group
>         force group = group
>         read list = @group
>         write list = @group
>         read only = No
>         force create mode = 0770
>         create mask = 0770
>         directory mask = 0770
>         guest ok = No
>         browseable = No  

> In this I've never had 'force create mode' before, but adding it
> hasn't helped.

> [dump]
>         comment = dump
>         path = /export/home/dump
>         valid users = @group1, @group2
>         force group = group1
>         read only = No
>         create mask = 0770

> Both shares will create new Office documents as being read only for
> the user as well as saving over documents that were chmod 777 as 400,
> but ONLY using MS Office 2007!

> In the file logs for the connecting machine I get:
> [2007/01/26 16:36:55, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245)
>   user opened file here/filename.xls read=Yes write=No (numopen=2)

> where write /should/ be 'Yes'. Upping loglevel to 3 gives me a huge
> amount of data.

> I'm using samba 3.0.14a-3sarge2 (debian)

> Any ideas?!

> Best regards,
>  Robin Edgar
>  Tripany

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