You are correct about this same problem on doze boxes. Another thing that also happens, is when the use closes the file, and reopens, it is still marked as read only. I experience this with office xp. I know this isn't much help, but at least you know you aren't alone :-D
Thanks, James -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dmitry Melekhov Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 1:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] Samba3.0.2a, MS Office (Excel), Save problem. Hello! <quote> Brief Description: This problem has now occured with a number of users, running different versions of Office (see below). When saving documents, Office seems to set the read-only bit. The problem is best shown with Excel, which when saving a spredsheet, reports the following error: "The Document was saved succesfully, but Excel cannot re-open it because of a sharing violation. Please Close the Document and try again." </quote> We have the same problem! On 2.2.8a... Unfortunatley, we can't reproduce it :-( As I readed on news group, some people have the same problem on windows fileservers. May be this is Excel problem? After all we used dos filemode to allow not owners change read-only bit.... -- 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