[Samba] Samba ACL and Office 2007

[David Vaz]

Harry Jede wrote:
> Am Montag, 27. April 2009 15:33 schrieb David Vaz:
>   
>> I am using samba 3.3.2-1 in a debian squeze installation, using ext3
>> with acl support.
>>
>> The problem I am experiencing is easy to replicate as I have tried it
>> in different machines.
>>
>> In a given share, user "A" is the owner of the folder "test", inside
>> this folder there is a office file "test.doc" for example. User "B"
>> has write privileges over file "test.doc" but not over "test". When
>> user "B" tries to save the office document (using office 2007) an
>> error appears "Access Denied. Contact your administrator".
>>
>> # file: test
>> # owner: A
>> # group: G
>> user::rwx
>> group::r-x
>> other::---
>>
>> # file: test.doc
>> # owner: A
>> # group: G
>> user::rwx
>> user:B:rwx
>> group::r-x
>> mask::rwx
>> other::---
>>
>> Notice that if the user copy the file to his desktop, modifies it and
>> later overwrites the original there is no problem.
>>     
> That's normal with Office 2007. Thanks to M$.
>
> They create a NEW file, when the user saves the old one, delete the old 
> one, then rename the new file to the old name.
>
> So, your users are able to update files with office 2007, only when they 
> have write permissons on the directory.
>
> Search this list archive for a more detailed explanation.
>   
Is there any workaround to this?

>   
>> This error is similar in some ways to this
>> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6160, but i suppose now
>> the lock over the folder.
>>     
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