This is not a critical problem, but it would be nice to have a resolution so that we can better organize how our company creates and stores Word documents.
File Server and Intranet System: OS: (old!) probably Redhat 5.0 (2.0.32 kernal) Samba: (old!) vers. 1.9.17 Apache: (old!) 1.2.4 Problem: Word in Office 2000 on Win98 box gets "file permission" error when trying to save to samba share. System works just fine in a small office environment, and has done so for several years. Machine is not exposed to the Internet so little risk of hacker intrusions, etc. I would rather not upgrade if I don't have to. Problem detail: When user on win98 box opens a Word .doc within Internet Explorer (.doc file is in a samba shared directory on the file server), Word loads and opens the file successfully. Clicking "Save" after making changes to the file results in the file permission error. If however user clicks "Back" a dialog box comes asking if user wants to save the file. If user clicks to save the changes, the changes are saved successfully without invoking the file permission error. I noticed that if user tries to save by clicking the "Save" button Word writes a *.tmp file to the samba shared directory, and these .tmp files accumulate each time an unsuccessful save occurs. If however the user just clicks "Back" and saves using the dialog, no *.tmp files accumulate. Seems that this problem has something to do with the creation of .tmp files and the inability of Word to delete them. I forced create mode on the samba share, and I forced apache's user and group (nobody) on the share, viz. [TestWord] comment = DRIVE T: path = /home/httpd/intranet/Local/TestWord public = yes read only = yes browseable = yes writable = yes printable = no write list = conrad,nobody create mode = 0666 force group = nobody force user = nobody force create mode = 0666 Can anyone suggest what might be wrong and how it can be fixed? Conrad Richter -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba