Hi everyone, I recently stumbled across something odd. When opening MS-PowerPoint files (.ppt) on our samba servers it seems that with certain versions of MS-Office the file date is being changed while just viewing the slides. There is no change involved and MS-PowerPoint is closed immediately after viewing without saving or anything. We run Samba on S.u.S.E LINUX. We use both XFS and ReiserFS. The effect holds true for both the versions 2.2.3a and 2.2.0a of smbd. It should be noted that on the share concerned we work with both the force user and the force group option. The change of the file date does happen if it is being accessed by MS-Office 2000 and does not happen if it is Office XP. The change of the file date does not happen on filetypes .XLS .DOC .TXT .ZIP etc. + Have any of you encountered the same? + Is there a workaround/solution (except not to use the product causing trouble of course ...)? + How does Samba handle the four different dates (created, last access, last write, change) in a read operation (just update last access, right?)? T.I.A. Stefan
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Stefan Maly wrote:> Hi everyone, > > I recently stumbled across something odd. When opening MS-PowerPoint > files (.ppt) > on our samba servers it seems that with certain versions of MS-Office > the file date is > being changed while just viewing the slides. There is no change involved > and > MS-PowerPoint is closed immediately after viewing without saving or > anything. > > We run Samba on S.u.S.E LINUX. > We use both XFS and ReiserFS. > The effect holds true for both the versions 2.2.3a and 2.2.0a of smbd.Please update to samba-2.2.8a. There are many bug fixes since 2.2.3a even. - John T.> > It should be noted that on the share concerned we work with both the > force user and > the force group option. > > The change of the file date does happen if it is being accessed by > MS-Office 2000 > and does not happen if it is Office XP. > > The change of the file date does not happen on filetypes .XLS .DOC .TXT > .ZIP etc. > > + Have any of you encountered the same? > + Is there a workaround/solution (except not to use the product causing > trouble of course ...)? > + How does Samba handle the four different dates (created, last access, > last write, change) > in a read operation (just update last access, right?)? > > T.I.A. > Stefan > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >-- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org
I really should have tried that upgrade up front! Everything is fine now it seems (checked some 5 clients out of 30 where the problem occured). If there is no additional mail on the subject from my side the problem is solved. Thanks - Stefan John H Terpstra wrote> Please update to samba-2.2.8a. There are many bug fixes since 2.2.3aeven.> - John T. > -- > John H Terpstra > Email: jht@samba.org