Hello Everyone! Perhaps some of you have some advice for dealing with this problem? I've done quite a bit of googling on this one, but I can't find anything useful.
Ever since I started using Samba as PDC, I have had this problem: when users merely open MS-Excel files on samba shares, the file's Last-Modification date is incremented to the current time. I have seen similar behavior with MS-Word files long ago when using WINNT4 as PDC, and it was caused by a macro-virus, but in this case, it doesn't seem to be virus-related. If the same Excel file is copied to a user's local "C" drive, the problem ceases. The problem of modifying-by-merely-opening began, I think, when I changed the PDC to samba. I had this problem using Samba 2.7* on RedHat 7.2 over a year ago. I'm currently using samba 2.2.8a on FreeBSD 4.9 with a similar configuration, and I still have the problem. Is it possible to stop this problem using adjustable configuration parameters in smb.conf? Here's my smb.conf, in case it's needed: --------------------------- [global] netbios name = netbiosname workgroup = workgroup security = user domain logons = yes time server = yes server string = Samba %v on %L log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 2000 ### Security Settings ### hosts allow = [omitted for this post] 127. hosts deny = ALL invalid users = root ;Unreadable files shouldn't even appear ;hide unreadable = yes ;Prevent browsing by default browseable = no ### Users and Passwords ### [omitted for this post] ### Performance ### deadtime = 15 getwd cache = yes lpq cache time = 45 socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY oplocks = yes level2 oplocks = yes #veto oplock files = /*.xls/*.XLS/ ### Domain ### local master = yes os level = 65 domain master = yes preferred master = yes domain logons = yes logon script = %U.bat logon drive = M: logon path = \\netbiosname\profiles\%U # Name Resolution wins support = yes wins proxy = yes dns proxy = yes # Case preserve case = yes short preserve case = yes default case = lower case sensitive = no ---------------------------------- #Sample Share Definition: [clients] comment = Client Directory path = /usr/local/samba/clients browseable = yes force create mode = 0664 force directory mode = 0775 force group = users invalid users = invlink map archive = no printable = no public = no valid users = @users writable = yes ------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba