Sorted it! You need to set nt acl support = no
the default in 3.0.0 is yes. Hope this might help someone else with the same problem. Cheers Nick "Nick Gale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Further to this, I have upgraded to the latest Pre release as I have seen > similar posts about this and Jeremy's advice to upgrade. > > It has made no difference I'm afraid. > > One other side to this problem that other people have posted about is that > Excel reports a read only file as doesn't exist. i.e. you can not open a > read only file at all. > > Help please! > > Thanks > > Nick > "Nick Gale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi > > > > I have just upgraded to Samba 3.0.0 and have found a problem with Office > > 2000 running on Windows 2000. Files opened in Word or Excel open fine and > > can be saved once without a problem but the action of saving sets the read > > only attribute of the file and so subsequent saves do not work. The only > way > > round this is to close the file, go to Explorer and select the properties > of > > the file and then un check the read only box. You can then open the file > > again, but again once you save it it becomes read only. > > > > This only happens on Office 2K on Win 2K, other file types on Win 2K are > > fine and office 2K files on Win 98 are fine. > > > > It appears to be the way Windows or Office is interpreting the information > > about the file as the log shows the same results / actions (log level 2 & > 3) > > as it does when opening and saving other files. > > > > Has anyone else found this - is this a bug? > > > > Your help would be gratefully received > > > > Thanks > > > > Nick > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba