CentOS - Jan 2006 - prompt to overwrite when re-saving file in MS-Excel to samba server

I have a couple users, in a new install of a samba file server on
CentOS 4.2, who are being prompted to overwrite the existing file when
in MS-Excel and simply saving the active spreadsheet. Normally,
File--Save (or just clicking on the disk icon) for an already saved
file will re-save the file without prompting to overwrite.

I have my doubts about whether this could be a server-side issue, and
suspect it's probably Excel, except

1) it started when I switched them from a Windows file server to the
Samba server;
2) it happened to both of them at the same time;
3) I've been working with Excel for a long time and never seen a
setting for this.

Anybody have any idea what this could be, or how to diagnose it?
Googling gets me a few VBScript questions, nothing useful.

FYI, the samba share is pretty basic, but I did increase the create
mask and directory mask settings, since these files are shared between
several users and they need to write each other's files. Apart from
that, no deviations from the norm.

Thanks,
Matt

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 19:57 -0500, Matt Morgan wrote:
> I have a couple users, in a new install of a samba file server on
> CentOS 4.2, who are being prompted to overwrite the existing file when
> in MS-Excel and simply saving the active spreadsheet. Normally,
> File--Save (or just clicking on the disk icon) for an already saved
> file will re-save the file without prompting to overwrite.
> 
> I have my doubts about whether this could be a server-side issue, and
> suspect it's probably Excel, except
> 
> 1) it started when I switched them from a Windows file server to the
> Samba server;
> 2) it happened to both of them at the same time;
> 3) I've been working with Excel for a long time and never seen a
> setting for this.
> 
> Anybody have any idea what this could be, or how to diagnose it?
> Googling gets me a few VBScript questions, nothing useful.
> 
> FYI, the samba share is pretty basic, but I did increase the create
> mask and directory mask settings, since these files are shared between
> several users and they need to write each other's files. Apart from
> that, no deviations from the norm.
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Excel is very peculiar in how it saves files.

see

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.samba.general/60586/match=excel

a lot of fixes were put into Samba-3.0.11 and I would guess that
upstream incorporated many of the patches since I've not had complaints
about that. Have you installed all updates?
# rpm -q samba
samba-3.0.10-1.4E.2

Craig