samba - Dec 2003 - Excel doesn't open read-only files on SAMBA share

Samba version: Samba 3.0 rebuild from SRPM on RedHat 8.0 w/XFS.


I ran into this problem (which sounds a lot like Bugzilla Bug 51) when
copying files from a CD-ROM to a Samba share on a W2K client.
Double-clicking on the file name in an Explorer window gives the file not
found error, but File->Open from Excel, and double-clicking the the filename
in the file-open dialog-box works fine. The filenames all seem to be in
plain English, though some have spaces and hyphens, so the non-ASCII
characters issue doesn't seem to be present here?

Removing the read-only flag from the client-side (the user has full
permissions on the folder and contents) fixed the problem.

It's low priority, of course, but it would be nice to see this fixed.

Thanks,
	Murthy

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 06:21:21PM -0500, Murthy Kambhampaty
wrote:
> Samba version: Samba 3.0 rebuild from SRPM on RedHat 8.0 w/XFS.
> 
> 
> I ran into this problem (which sounds a lot like Bugzilla Bug 51) when
> copying files from a CD-ROM to a Samba share on a W2K client.
> Double-clicking on the file name in an Explorer window gives the file not
> found error, but File->Open from Excel, and double-clicking the the
filename
> in the file-open dialog-box works fine. The filenames all seem to be in
> plain English, though some have spaces and hyphens, so the non-ASCII
> characters issue doesn't seem to be present here?
> 
> Removing the read-only flag from the client-side (the user has full
> permissions on the folder and contents) fixed the problem.
> 
> It's low priority, of course, but it would be nice to see this fixed.
Already fixed for 3.0.1 - please download the latest release
candidate.

Thanks,

	Jeremy.

Sorry to have missed that item in the release notes -- I did the wrong
search.

(I'd download the 3.0.1-rc1, but that's a pretty stern warning against
running it on production servers, and the server in question is in
production. I can certainly wait out the release.)

Thank's for the response,
	Murthy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:jra@samba.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 6:29 PM
> To: Murthy Kambhampaty
> Cc: 'samba@lists.samba.org'
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Excel doesn't open read-only files on SAMBA share
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 06:21:21PM -0500, Murthy Kambhampaty wrote:
> > Samba version: Samba 3.0 rebuild from SRPM on RedHat 8.0 w/XFS.
> > 
> > 
> > I ran into this problem (which sounds a lot like Bugzilla 
> Bug 51) when
> > copying files from a CD-ROM to a Samba share on a W2K client.
> > Double-clicking on the file name in an Explorer window 
> gives the file not
> > found error, but File->Open from Excel, and double-clicking 
> the the filename
> > in the file-open dialog-box works fine. The filenames all 
> seem to be in
> > plain English, though some have spaces and hyphens, so the non-ASCII
> > characters issue doesn't seem to be present here?
> > 
> > Removing the read-only flag from the client-side (the user has full
> > permissions on the folder and contents) fixed the problem.
> > 
> > It's low priority, of course, but it would be nice to see 
> this fixed.
> 
> Already fixed for 3.0.1 - please download the latest release
> candidate.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Jeremy.
>