Server Gremlin
2007-Oct-29 15:17 UTC
[Samba] Office 2007 Documents Read Only in Samba Share SOLUTION
Background: The permissions mode on Microsoft Office 2007 documents changes to 0400 when the file is saved for the first time in a Samba share. A number of solutions seem to be floating around that fix this problem, but there seems to be very little you can do if you're using roaming profiles and the profile is stored under the user's home directory. (Example - /sambahomes/john/profile) This is because the commonly offered solutions, such as settting "profile acls = no" fix the Office 2007 saving problem, but break user profiles. Solution: Add the line "force security mode = 0770" to the Samba share. This appears to solve the problem, but I haven't implemented it on the real thing yet. Before I do, I'd like to know if anyone has any caveats about adding this line to all my share definitions. Thanks, - SG