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...up an error box complaining about lack of write access. I've spent some time in google and found an intereting commment in Samba's open.c function, "This little piece of insanity is inspired by the fact that an NT client can open a file for O_RDONLY, but set the create disposition to FILE_EXISTS_TRUNCATE. If the client *can* write to the file, then it expects to truncate the file, even though it is opening for readonly. Quicken uses this stupid trick in backup file creation..." I looked in the log file for the error string corresponding to the "little bit of insanity". The longish...

...up an error box complaining about lack of write access. I've spent some time in google and found an intereting commment in Samba's open.c function, "This little piece of insanity is inspired by the fact that an NT client can open a file for O_RDONLY, but set the create disposition to FILE_EXISTS_TRUNCATE. If the client *can* write to the file, then it expects to truncate the file, even though it is opening for readonly. Quicken uses this stupid trick in backup file creation..." I looked in the log file for the error string corresponding to the "little bit of insanity". The longish...