[Samba] Word and Excel files are read-only when opening

[Adam Williams]

i think force security mode = 777 in the share will fix this error.

Robert LeBlanc wrote:
> I have not been able to resolve this problem, but I need to have default
> ACLs, so, I've croned a script to "fix" the permissions. I run this every 15
> minutes and usually people don't notice it. When they call me, I ask them to
> wait until after the script runs again. I would really like to see Office
> fixed for this issue. Another weird thing is that it seems that for us,
> after the second person edits the file and saves it, the problem really
> doesn't show up again, at least in our testing.
>
> Here is my scripts:
> # fixfiles.sh
> #! /bin/bash
>
> /root/filecheck.sh | awk '{ print "\42"$0"\42" }' | xargs --no-run-if-empty
> chmod -v u+w
>
> ----------------
> # filecheck.sh
> #! /bin/bash
>
> /usr/bin/find /ls/groups/ -perm -u+r ! -perm /u+w -printf "%p\n"
>
> It is pretty quick on our files system and only changes the files that are
> wrong.
>
>
> Robert LeBlanc
> Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support
> Brigham Young University
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet at esiee.fr> wrote:
>
>   
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>> Hello
>>
>> Well I have checked I there is no default ACL on the considered files
>>
>>
>>
>> dale at briannassaladdressing.com wrote:
>>     
>>> Frank,
>>>
>>> Another thing worth checking is default acl's.  If default acl's exist,
>>>       
>> they can override the posix permissions.  Run getfacl on the directory/file
>> in question to see if there are any listings with "default" in them.
>>     
>>> The setting of default acl's has caused word/excel/access read-only
>>>       
>> problems for me more than once.
>>     
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> -----Original message-----
>>> From: Frank Bonnet f.bonnet at esiee.fr
>>> Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:04:54 -0500
>>> To: John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
>>> Subject: Re: [Samba] Word and Excel files are read-only when opening
>>>
>>> John Drescher wrote:
>>>       
>>>>>>> Since we started our new Samba + LDAP backend server yesterday
>>>>>>> some (not all) PC we have a problem with Word and Excel files
>>>>>>> that are marked "read-only" when users are trying to open
>>>>>>> them from their Samba network shares.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This happen ONLY for *.doc and *.xls files , if we open
>>>>>>> and save a *.html file with Word it works ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any info/help greatly appreciated.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> This probably is due to the fact that when Office saves a file it
>>>>>> creates a new file it creates a temp file then deletes the old file
>>>>>> then renames the temp file to the same name as the old file and in
>>>>>> this case the os magically sets the permissions of the renamed temp
>>>>>> file to what the old file had. The problem is that Linux does not have
>>>>>> this weird filesystem behavior built in so you have to emulate this
>>>>>> with samba. I believe some versons of samba required a create mask of
>>>>>> 2777 to get this to work. BTW, this is discussed many times in the
>>>>>> archives.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John
>>>>>>             
>>> Hello John
>>>
>>> I've tried but it did not work for me .
>>>
>>> Frank
>>>
>>>       
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