Hi, I'm trying to find out why Office XP programs set the read only flag on files the first time they are saved. This happens when the files are saved to shares on a Samba server running 2.2.8a, not when files are saved to a local disk of a share on an XP pro machine. I can create files with the "New document" shell menu in Windows explorer and these have the expected permissions. I can then open them in Word or Excel and hit the save button and the "read only" flag is set. If I then close Word, clear the flag, open the document in Word and resave, the flag remains cleared. Is Office XP using some sort of extended status information which isn't initially defined to determine the setting of the flag? Has anyone seen this problem and come up with a Samba based workaround? Or am I doomed to wait for a service pack for XP office which fixes this properly? -- Dave Addison -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 177 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20030713/624d80d3/signature.bin