That is a problem with the way word and some other programs edit files.
Word renames the original file, saves the edited output to a new file
of the original name and then deletes the backup (the original). When
the new file is created it is created as a regular file.
Jeffrey M. Johnson wrote:> I am having a "unique" problem with samba and can't seem to
find a solution
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> I am running a samba 3.0.5 server on a Solaris 2.9 Server.
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> All Samba does is map the users home directory to there windows desktop.
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> In the home directory we have symbolic links to our web-server so users can
> access their web-related content. We have two types of symbolic links, one
> to directories and others to specific files.
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> lrwxrwxrwx 1 user group 44 Apr 6 16:13 file.html ->
> /htdocs/file.html
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> lrwxrwxrwx 1 user group 44 Apr 6 16:13 directory ->
> /htdocs/directory
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> If a user modifies a file in directory there is no problem everything works
> fine.
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> If a user modifies the file.html it over rights the file
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> -rwxrw-r-- 1 user group 206 Apr 6 2005 file.html
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> However the problem does not exist with every piece of software, for
example
> notepad and wordpad do not overwrite the file while word and dreamweaver
> does.
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> Any have a solution to this problem.
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> Jeff
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