Have you by any chance edited the case sensitivity parameter in the
smb.conf?
Ronnie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin@us5.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin@us5.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Christoffer Perret
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 2:50 PM
> To: samba@us5.samba.org
> Subject: 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
>