Help. I am having trouble getting word97 to write a file to a share. I dont remember this sort of problem in the past. Excel97 works fine, I can drag-n-drop files into the share, and notepad will open/write and save-as just fine. I can create folders Word97 however either says that there is a permissions problem, or to check that the disk is still in the drive. NT4 SP4 to Solaris 2.5/Samba 2.0.3, Word97-SR2 This is what smbstatus returns initially. **** Samba version 2.0.3 Service uid gid pid machine ---------------------------------------------- No locked files Share mode memory usage (bytes): 1048464(99%) free + 56(0%) used + 56(0%) overhead = 1048576(100%) total ***** Then after I browse to the share within the Word Save-As dialog box... Samba version 2.0.3 Service uid gid pid machine ---------------------------------------------- mike mike sggadm 26515 federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar 27 17:45:01 1999 No locked files Share mode memory usage (bytes): 1048464(99%) free + 56(0%) used + 56(0%) overhead = 1048576(100%) total ***** Then after I click OK (to save) and word97 brings up the error message I have this... Samba version 2.0.3 Service uid gid pid machine ---------------------------------------------- mike mike sggadm 26515 federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar 27 17:45:01 1999 mike mike sggadm 26515 federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar 27 17:45:48 1999 mike mike sggadm 26515 federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar 27 17:45:48 1999 mike mike sggadm 26515 federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar 27 17:45:48 1999 mike mike sggadm 26515 federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar 27 17:45:48 1999 Locked files: Pid DenyMode R/W Oplock Name -------------------------------------------------- 26515 DENY_NONE RDWR NONE /home/mike/sambatest/~WRD0000.tmp Sat Mar 27 17:45:47 1999 26515 DENY_NONE RDONLY NONE /home/mike/sambatest/Test.doc Sat Mar 27 17:45:48 1999 26515 DENY_NONE RDONLY NONE /home/mike/sambatest/Test.doc Sat Mar 27 17:45:48 1999 Share mode memory usage (bytes): 1048224(99%) free + 256(0%) used + 96(0%) overhead = 1048576(100%) total I now have a zero-length file (correct name) and a non-zero length word temp file. drwxrwxrwx 3 mike sggadm 512 Mar 27 19:06 ./ drwx------ 36 mike sggadm 3072 Mar 27 18:50 ../ -rw-r----- 1 mike sggadm 13824 Mar 27 18:46 Book1.xls drwxr-x--- 2 mike sggadm 512 Mar 27 19:06 NewFolder/ -rw-r----- 1 mike sggadm 0 Mar 27 17:45 Test.doc -rw-r----- 1 mike sggadm 1858 Mar 27 18:45 Text Document.txt -rw-r----- 1 mike sggadm 19456 Mar 27 17:45 ~WRD0000.tmp ************* create mask 0740 force create mode 0400 directory mask 0750 force directory mode 0500 global SMB.conf locking options are set to defaults: i.e. kernel oplocks = yes, locking = yes, ole lock comp=yes, oplocks = yes strict locking = no, share modes = yes. share smb.conf locking options are also at default: blocking = yes, fake oplocks = no, locking = yes, oplocks = yes strict locking = no, share modes = yes ************ This is the line from the log file Share violation on file (1,4,2,26515,sambatest/~WRD0000.tmp,fcbopen = 0, flags = 2) = 0 I can generate a log file of any level showing this in action very easily. Does anyone have a solution or set of smb.conf options I should use ? Thanks, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael J Harlow email : Mike.Harlow@utas.edu.au Computer Systems Officer, School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-78, Hobart Tasmania 7001, Australia. Phone : (03) 6226 2212 or 0419 585 308 fax : (03) 6226 2989 ------------------------------------------------------------------------