Hi everybody, We've been running a samba server for some time, which is used both as PDC and share space. Recently, we bought some new machines which came with Windows 7 installed. I struggled to find a solution to make them join the domain, and discovered I had to upgrade samba for that, which I did. We are now running version 3.4.9-42 on CentOS5. Since this upgrade, we have problems with MS Office files that are opened read-only because already open by "another user". This happens very often on the Windows 7 machines, quite often on Vista machines and I did not see it happen (yet at least) on XP machines. We found a workaround to avoid the problem : instead of double clicking on the shared file, if we right click on it and click on open, the problem does not happen, which seems really strange ! When I try to open the file from the Windows machine and it complains the file is "already in use by another user", I checked on the samba side : - The file permissions are correct - There is no ~xxx file - The file is not open at all according to smbstatus At the same time, if I try to open the file on a Windows XP machine, I have no problem at all, whatever network user I use. Could anybody help ?
Hi everybody, We've been running a samba server for some time, which is used both as PDC and share space. Recently, we bought some new machines which came with Windows 7 installed. I struggled to find a solution to make them join the domain, and discovered I had to upgrade samba for that, which I did. We are now running version 3.4.9-42 on CentOS5. Since this upgrade, we have problems with MS Office files that are opened read-only because already open by "another user". This happens very often on the Windows 7 machines, quite often on Vista machines and I did not see it happen (yet at least) on XP machines. We found a workaround to avoid the problem : instead of double clicking on the shared file, if we right click on it and click on open, the problem does not happen, which seems really strange ! When I try to open the file from the Windows machine and it complains the file is "already in use by another user", I checked on the samba side : - The file permissions are correct - There is no ~xxx file - The file is not open at all according to smbstatus At the same time, if I try to open the file on a Windows XP machine, I have no problem at all, whatever network user I use. Could anybody help ?