On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:29:50 -0800, Jeremy Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 06:02:41PM +0100, David Landgren wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:24:00 -0500 (EST), > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You may also want to read article 324491 at support.microsoft.com. It > > > applies to Excel 2002, but may be pertinent. > > > > Oops, I got the exact message wrong, I'll restate it here so that web > > searches can find it: > > > > The file (foo.xls) may have been changed by another user since you last > > saved it > > > > Thanks for the link, it may indeed relate to my problem. Anyway, in > > the meantime, while poring over samba logs, I found aawful hack, and > > that is to add > > > > veto oplock files = /*.xls/ > > > > to the [globals] section of smb.conf. That's pretty suboptimal, but it > > gets the users off my back. There must be a better way. > > Yep there is - it's fixed in 3.0.11. Try the pre release if you need it > now. > > Jeremy.
Hello Jeremy, thanks for the reply. I have installed 3.0.11pre1and it does appear to have fixed the problem. I've backed out the veto parameter and Excel continues to behave itself. uname of the host: SunOS jersey 5.9 Generic_112233-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4 Thanks again, David -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba