samba - Sep 2001 - FAT partition served by samba => ms word can't save modifications

I am having problems with ms word 2000 SR-1 that does not want to save the
modifications I apply to samba-served .doc files ("disk must be
write-protected").
It looks like the problem described with nfs-mounted samba served
directories, but my shared directory is not nfs-mounted.
It is a FAT disk (because my server has dual-boot), which seems to be the
cause of the problem.

This fat disk entry in /etc/fstab :
/dev/hda5               /mnt/data               vfat
gid=1009,uid=13308,setgid=1009,setuid=13308,rw,suid,umask=002 0 0

So all the files of /mnt/data are owned by my user "jojo" (uid 13308
gid
1009), the only windows user accessing the files through samba.

Below is my smb.conf, I have two shared dirs that are configured in the same
way : /mnt/data and /tmp.
The first one is FAT, the other one is ext2.
ms word will work fine in /tmp, not in /mnt/data.

I am running samba-2.0.10 (Redhat RPM samba-2.0.10-2) over a RedHat 7.1
system.

Thanks for any suggestion (except I shouldn't use ms word :-)

Jean-Fran?ois LE CAM

[global]
  workgroup = fly
  locking = no
  preserve case = yes
  case sensitive = no
  short preserve case = yes
  server string = Kite Samba Server
  hosts allow = 10.230.1.11
  log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
  max log size = 0
  security = user
  encrypt passwords = yes
  smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
  socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
  interfaces = 10.230.1.12/24
  remote browse sync = 10.230.1.11
  remote announce = 10.230.1.11
  dns proxy = no
[data]
   comment = Data on Kite
   path = /mnt/data
   valid users = jojo
   write list = jojo
   public = no
   writeable = yes
   printable = no
   create mask = 0765
[tmp]
   comment = Tmp on Kite
   path = /tmp
   valid users = jojo
   write list = jojo
   public = no
   writeable = yes
   printable = no
   create mask = 0765

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Jean-Francois LE CAM wrote:
> I am running samba-2.0.10 (Redhat RPM samba-2.0.10-2) over a RedHat 7.1
> system.
This is a known bug with FAT file systems IIRC in the Linux 2.4 kernel.
I'm fairly certain Tridge checked in a fix for this to the 2.2 branch.
Not sure if that is in 2.2.1a though. Try the latest SAMBA_2_2 cvs code.






cheers, jerry
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