samba - Oct 2015 - access denied for ms office documents on samba 4.1.17 ubuntu 12.04

Hi dears,

It has been a long time that we did not update our samba (4.0.10). Is it
possible to directly update it  to the latest stable version as stated in
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Updating_Samba or we should take another
path?!
Please note that we have just one samba 4 AD DC working with internal DNS
and without any additional DC or replication.

Yours,
E. Alaei

Hello Elyad,

Am 17.10.2015 um 17:18 schrieb Elyad Alaei:
> Is it possible to directly update it to the latest stable version
> as stated in https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Updating_Samba
Yes, but
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Updating_Samba#Other_changes_you_should_pay_attention_to.2C_when_updating

And of course, you should have a look at the release notes of skipped
version.

Regards,
Marc

Thanks dear Marc

Actually I was afraid of previous release notes, should I read all the
notes for 4.1.X,4.2.x and 4.3.x and <4.0.10? It would be a lot of reading?!

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld at samba.org>
wrote:
> Hello Elyad,
>
> Am 17.10.2015 um 17:18 schrieb Elyad Alaei:
> > Is it possible to directly update it to the latest stable version
> > as stated in https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Updating_Samba
>
> Yes, but
>
>
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Updating_Samba#Other_changes_you_should_pay_attention_to.2C_when_updating
>
> And of course, you should have a look at the release notes of skipped
> version.
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>

I’ve posted earlier a question related to the problem regarding MS Office
Documents that are saved in share folders on samba 4.1.17.
Samba 4 is installed and configured as AC DC on Ubuntu 12.04 server. All share
folders are accessible to the respective users with respective rights.

The problem is, some Office Documents at times will not be accessible even to
file creators, owners. This happens at least once a day.

When I login as an administrator and check the rights of users on those
documents, I found that all users who have been give full right, have lost their
rights on those documents but folders. This happens only by office documents and
sometimes by some files that are downloaded from Internet and from e-mail saved
attachments. Until now, I didn’t find any solution to this problems.

Now I’ve noticed that the problem appears when different users (more than one
user) work on the same office file irrespective of the time when the users
accessed the documents. By Documents that are owned and accessed only by one and
same user (creator) there was no such problem. Is there anything that I can do
to fix it?

Thank you