samba - Jan 2005 - Excel "file may have been modified by another user since" with Samba 3.0.10

Hello list,

I am encountering a problem with Excel 2003 on Samba shares. If I open
an Excel file, edit a cell and then try to save it, I get a dialog box
with a "file may have been modified by another user since" message,
with the option to save a new copy, or overwrite the current file.
Subsequent saves don't exhibit this behaviour, it occurs only on the
first save after opening a file.

This was using Samba 3.0.2. I went through the Changelogs and saw the
line in the 3.0.5 changes (Implement deferred open code to fix a bug
with Excel files on Samba shares.) and thought that this would do the
trick.

I have built and rolled out 3.0.10, but the problem is still present.
The only file that smbstatus shows is as follows:

Pid    DenyMode   Access      R/W        Oplock           Name
--------------------------------------------------------------
15586  DENY_NONE  0x2019f     RDWR       EXCLUSIVE+BATCH 
/home/d/david/a.xls   Tue Jan 11 15:02:14 2005

I have tried the 'defer sharing violations' set to yes, set to no, but
that doesn't change anything. I assume I have to change something in
smb.conf but I don't know what it is.

Thanks for any clues I can use,
David

You may also want to read article 324491 at support.microsoft.com.  It
applies to Excel 2002, but may be pertinent.

Mark Orenstein
East Granby, CT School System

> Hello list,
>
> I am encountering a problem with Excel 2003 on Samba shares. If I open
> an Excel file, edit a cell and then try to save it, I get a dialog box
> with a "file may have been modified by another user since"
message,
> with the option to save a new copy, or overwrite the current file.
> Subsequent saves don't exhibit this behaviour, it occurs only on the
> first save after opening a file.
>
> This was using Samba 3.0.2. I went through the Changelogs and saw the
> line in the 3.0.5 changes (Implement deferred open code to fix a bug
> with Excel files on Samba shares.) and thought that this would do the
> trick.
>
> I have built and rolled out 3.0.10, but the problem is still present.
> The only file that smbstatus shows is as follows:
>
> Pid    DenyMode   Access      R/W        Oplock           Name
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 15586  DENY_NONE  0x2019f     RDWR       EXCLUSIVE+BATCH
> /home/d/david/a.xls   Tue Jan 11 15:02:14 2005
>
> I have tried the 'defer sharing violations' set to yes, set to no,
but
> that doesn't change anything. I assume I have to change something in
> smb.conf but I don't know what it is.
>
> Thanks for any clues I can use,
> David
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 03:27:42PM +0100, David Landgren
wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I am encountering a problem with Excel 2003 on Samba shares. If I open
> an Excel file, edit a cell and then try to save it, I get a dialog box
> with a "file may have been modified by another user since"
message,
> with the option to save a new copy, or overwrite the current file.
> Subsequent saves don't exhibit this behaviour, it occurs only on the
> first save after opening a file.
> 
> This was using Samba 3.0.2. I went through the Changelogs and saw the
> line in the 3.0.5 changes (Implement deferred open code to fix a bug
> with Excel files on Samba shares.) and thought that this would do the
> trick.
> 
> I have built and rolled out 3.0.10, but the problem is still present.
> The only file that smbstatus shows is as follows:
This will be fixed in 3.0.11. You can use the 3.0.11 pre release if you
need the fix now.

Sorry for the problem,

Jeremy.