samba - Jul 2009 - Word and Excel files are read-only when opening

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Hello

Since we started our new Samba + LDAP backend server yesterday
some (not all) PC we have a problem with Word and Excel files
that are marked "read-only" when users are trying to open
them from their Samba network shares.

This happen ONLY for *.doc and *.xls files , if we open
and save a *.html file with Word it works ...

Any info/help greatly appreciated.

Thank you





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On Thu, 02 Jul 2009, Frank Bonnet might have said:
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> Hello
> 
> Since we started our new Samba + LDAP backend server yesterday
> some (not all) PC we have a problem with Word and Excel files
> that are marked "read-only" when users are trying to open
> them from their Samba network shares.
> 
> This happen ONLY for *.doc and *.xls files , if we open
> and save a *.html file with Word it works ...
> 
> Any info/help greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you
I had read only issues with microsoft files from a mac to a samba+ldap
linux box. That's the closest I can come to your situtation.

Mike

> Since we started our new Samba + LDAP backend server yesterday
> some (not all) PC we have a problem with Word and Excel files
> that are marked "read-only" when users are trying to open
> them from their Samba network shares.
>
> This happen ONLY for *.doc and *.xls files , if we open
> and save a *.html file with Word it works ...
>
> Any info/help greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you
>
This probably is due to the fact that when Office saves a file it
creates a new file it creates a temp file then deletes the old file
then renames the temp file to the same name as the old file and in
this case the os magically sets the permissions of the renamed temp
file to what the old file had. The problem is that Linux does not have
this weird filesystem behavior built in so you have to emulate this
with samba. I believe some versons of samba required a create mask of
2777 to get this to work. BTW, this is discussed many times in the
archives.

John

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Hello

I am running 3.2.11


Yannick Bergeron wrote:
> Hello Frank,
> 
> I had similar issues with samba-3.0.25 but not anymore with 3.3.0
> 
> what version are you using?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Yannick Bergeron
> 
> 
> 
> Frank Bonnet 
>     f.bonnet at esiee.fr
>        
> 
>     Thu Jul  2 11:30:42 GMT 2009
> < Hello
> < 
> < Since we started our new Samba + LDAP backend server yesterday
> < some (not all) PC we have a problem with Word and Excel files
> < that are marked "read-only" when users are trying to open
> < them from their Samba network shares.
> < 
> < This happen ONLY for *.doc and *.xls files , if we open
> < and save a *.html file with Word it works ...
> < 
> < Any info/help greatly appreciated.
> < 
> < Thank you
> 
> 
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Hello

Well I have checked I there is no default ACL on the considered files



dale@briannassaladdressing.com wrote:
> Frank,
> 
> Another thing worth checking is default acl's.  If default acl's
exist, they can override the posix permissions.  Run getfacl on the
directory/file in question to see if there are any listings with
"default" in them.
> 
> The setting of default acl's has caused word/excel/access read-only
problems for me more than once.
> 
> Dale
> 
> -----Original message-----
> From: Frank Bonnet f.bonnet@esiee.fr
> Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:04:54 -0500
> To: John Drescher drescherjm@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Word and Excel files are read-only when opening
> 
> John Drescher wrote:
>>>>> Since we started our new Samba + LDAP backend server
yesterday
>>>>> some (not all) PC we have a problem with Word and Excel
files
>>>>> that are marked "read-only" when users are trying
to open
>>>>> them from their Samba network shares.
>>>>>
>>>>> This happen ONLY for *.doc and *.xls files , if we open
>>>>> and save a *.html file with Word it works ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Any info/help greatly appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>
>>>> This probably is due to the fact that when Office saves a file
it
>>>> creates a new file it creates a temp file then deletes the old
file
>>>> then renames the temp file to the same name as the old file and
in
>>>> this case the os magically sets the permissions of the renamed
temp
>>>> file to what the old file had. The problem is that Linux does
not have
>>>> this weird filesystem behavior built in so you have to emulate
this
>>>> with samba. I believe some versons of samba required a create
mask of
>>>> 2777 to get this to work. BTW, this is discussed many times in
the
>>>> archives.
>>>>
>>>> John
> Hello John
> 
> I've tried but it did not work for me .
> 
> Frank
> 
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