samba - Sep 1999 - read/write of Excel file is denied

Hi,

One of my users is having this problem. He saved an MS Excel file on the UNIX 
disk and he always experienced cannot write to the file even if it is his 
file. I am not sure if this is the SAMBA problem or the NT problem(we are 
using Windows Terminal Server Edition). Sometimes, he experiences these 
message "cannot open read only file" or "this file is opened by
administrator,
open it as read only". All these problem related to MS Excel. I
couldn't see
any error in the SAMBA log file, but would like to know if anyone of you have 
experienced this?

Please advise.

regards,
Bridget

Hello
I had a similar problem some time ago. 
The solution to our problem was that this one user had mounted our common
directory the wrong way. He had mounted the directory above our common
directory and therefore everything he saved in the common directory got the
permissions of the directory above.

So, in case you haven't done that already, you should check the permissions
of the file in UNIX an check how the user mounts the directory in Explorer.

Hope this will be of any help

Regards Neta Hedberg 

At 19:52 1999-09-20 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>One of my users is having this problem. He saved an MS Excel file on the
UNIX 
>disk and he always experienced cannot write to the file even if it is his 
>file. I am not sure if this is the SAMBA problem or the NT problem(we are 
>using Windows Terminal Server Edition). Sometimes, he experiences these 
>message "cannot open read only file" or "this file is opened
by
administrator, 
>open it as read only". All these problem related to MS Excel. I
couldn't see
>any error in the SAMBA log file, but would like to know if anyone of you
have 
>experienced this?
>
>Please advise.
>
>regards,
>Bridget
>
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