[Samba] Read-only alert for MS Office files on samba share

[Daniel Müller]

THe point is that msoffice produces temp files while opening and writing.
There is a solution around this 
in the mail listing years ago. I came over that problem by setting the
sticky bit for the group according the shares.
in your globals: nt acl support = no
in your shares: sometimes if you have set the sticky bit it should be
sufficient: 
inherit permissions = yes
force group = yourgroup
or,

force create mode = 0660
force directory mode = 0770
force group = yourgroup

good luck
daniel

#On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:42:35 -0500, Gaiseric Vandal
<gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Which version of Office?    Do you have full rights to the parent 
> directory?  Maybe it creates temp files in a different location?     
> When you double-click the file, was office already running?  I can't see

> why it would matter.
> 
> ALl I can think is that when you double-click a document different 
> parameters are passed to the file system.   If I remember, in explorer 
> when you associate file types with an app, you can also associate what 
> the app should do with it.
> 
> Can you set office to always  create temp files on local drive rather 
> than by default in the same directory as the file?
> 
> 
> On 01/07/2011 03:52 AM, Admin machines wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> We've been running a samba server for some time, which is used both as
>> PDC
>> and share space.
>> Recently, we bought some new machines which came with Windows 7
>> installed. I
>> struggled to find a solution to make them join the domain, and
>> discovered I
>> had to upgrade samba for that, which I did.


>> We are now running version 3.4.9-42 on CentOS5.
>>
>> Since this upgrade, we have problems with MS Office files that are
opened
>> read-only because already open by "another user".
>> This happens very often on the Windows 7 machines, quite often on Vista
>> machines and I did not see it happen (yet at least) on XP machines.
>>
>> We found a workaround to avoid the problem : instead of double clicking
>> on
>> the shared file, if we right click on it and click on open, the problem
>> does
>> not happen, which seems really strange !
>>
>> When I try to open the file from the Windows machine and it complains
the
>> file is "already in use by another user", I checked on the samba side :
>>    - The file permissions are correct
>>    - There is no ~xxx file
>>    - The file is not open at all according to smbstatus
>> At the same time, if I try to open the file on a Windows XP machine, I
>> have
>> no problem at all, whatever network user I use.
>>
>> Could anybody help ?
>>