[Samba] Excel 'Document not saved' Error when using SMB2 Protocol
Ian CLANCY
ian.clancy at valeo.com
Tue Oct 8 08:31:38 MDT 2013
Hi Samba Users,
I'm in the process of building a Samba4 CTDB /GPFS Cluster joined as a
member server to AD that also supports ACL's .
It has taken some time but almost everything is working now :) . My one
outstanding issue is editing files using Excel 2007 on Windows 7 results in
a 'Document not saved' error. I believe this is an issue with the SMB2
protocol as I can edit the same files with the same user and version of
Excel on a Windows XP workstation. Using Wireshark i can see that
communication between the Windows 7 client is using SMB2 . Excel is quite a
strange beast, it creates temporary files etc..
As a test i have set the parameter "client max protocol = NT1" in the
smb.conf of my cluster members but the Win 7 clients continue to use the
SMB2 protocol.
Looking more closely at the communication between the Win 7 client and the
Samba Servers when i attempt a file save in Excel i see that the Client
issues a FILE_INFO/SMB2_FILE_RENAME_INFO request and the samba server
returns a STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED response.
I suspect disabling ACL's would resolve the issue but unfortunately these
are necessary for the project . Ideally i would be able to use SMB2 but it
is not a show stopper if i could force Win 7 clients to use SMB1.
I'm currently using samba 4.0.9 / CTDB 2.4 on Centos 6.4 with GPFS 3.4.0-14.
my smb.conf is pasted below.
Thanks in advance for any comment of feedback.
Ian Clancy
IS Department
Valeo Vision Systems (VVS)
[global]
workgroup = MYNET
realm = MYNET.BALEO.COM
netbios name = TESTCLUSTER
security = ADS
map to guest = Bad User
client max protocol = NT1
unix extensions = No
clustering = Yes
winbind cache time = 900
winbind use default domain = Yes
idmap config *:range = 1000-90000
idmap config * : backend = tdb2
force unknown acl user = Yes
ea support = Yes
map archive = No
map readonly = no
mangled names = No
store dos attributes = Yes
[gpfstest]
comment = GPFS File System
path = /gpfstest
read only = No
create mask = 0770
force create mode = 0770
nt acl support = No
vfs objects = shadow_copy2, gpfs, fileid
fileid:algorithm = fsname
shadow:fixinodes = yes
shadow:basedir = /gpfstest
shadow:snapdir = /gpfstest/.snapshots
nfs4:acedup = merge
nfs4:chown = yes
nfs4:mode = special
gpfs:winattr = yes
gpfs:sharemodes = yes
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