samba - Jan 2001 - Problem with NT4 and Word 2000

I wonder if somebody could help me with a problem I've been having with Word
2000. We have a small samba network with about 10 machines. All but 1 of them
are Win 98s, but one is NT4. The Samba server is a RedHat 7 server running Samba
2.0.7.

The problem we have been having is this:

The NT machine cannot access the network drives (mapped through a login script)
through Word. Word says something like the following: "No permission to
access the folder so-and-so. Contact your network administrator". This
happens when i use "File | Open" or "File | Save" from Word.

If I, on the other hand, open the same network drive through "My
computer" or "Windows Explorer", and double click on the Word
file, everything works just fine. I am able to save the file in Word, even
"Save As" and even Open another file. AS LONG AS I DON'T TRY TO
ACCESS THE ROOT FOLDER OF THE NETWORK DRIVE.
The Win98s don't have any such problems.

This applies to all shared network drives and the user's home directory, so
it shouldn't be a matter of UNIX permissions.

Has anyone run up against anything similar?

Christoffer Perret

Howdy Samba folks -

I have a pretty nitpicky request to make:

Can we have something in the Subject line indicating that the message is
Samba related?  Can the list server do that?

I, like many others on the list, am on a boatload of lists.  It would be
nice if the subject said what list the message is in reference to.

Thanks, and sorry for the intrustion,
Thomas