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Well I have checked I there is no default ACL on the considered files d...@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.bon...@esiee.fr > Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:04:54 -0500 > To: John Drescher dresche...@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 > - -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpR9+EACgkQ6f7UMO5oSsUE/gCdEK3qJs2ELkwqD3EAiR/a2kfn H0AAnA+3YVAFjY4zQUIHaN1c1HDLsecd =wKVV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba