[Samba] Read-only alert for MS Office files on samba share
Hi everybody, We've been running a samba server for some time, which is used both as PDC and share space. Recently, we bought some new machines which came with Windows 7 installed. I struggled to find a solution to make them join the domain, and discovered I had to upgrade samba for that, which I did. We are now running version 3.4.9-42 on CentOS5. Since this upgrade, we have problems with MS Office files that are opened read-only because already open by another user. This happens very often on the Windows 7 machines, quite often on Vista machines and I did not see it happen (yet at least) on XP machines. We found a workaround to avoid the problem : instead of double clicking on the shared file, if we right click on it and click on open, the problem does not happen, which seems really strange ! When I try to open the file from the Windows machine and it complains the file is already in use by another user, I checked on the samba side : - The file permissions are correct - There is no ~xxx file - The file is not open at all according to smbstatus At the same time, if I try to open the file on a Windows XP machine, I have no problem at all, whatever network user I use. Could anybody help ? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Read-only alert for MS Office files on samba share
Which version of Office?Do you have full rights to the parent directory? Maybe it creates temp files in a different location? When you double-click the file, was office already running? I can't see why it would matter. ALl I can think is that when you double-click a document different parameters are passed to the file system. If I remember, in explorer when you associate file types with an app, you can also associate what the app should do with it. Can you set office to always create temp files on local drive rather than by default in the same directory as the file? On 01/07/2011 03:52 AM, Admin machines wrote: Hi everybody, We've been running a samba server for some time, which is used both as PDC and share space. Recently, we bought some new machines which came with Windows 7 installed. I struggled to find a solution to make them join the domain, and discovered I had to upgrade samba for that, which I did. We are now running version 3.4.9-42 on CentOS5. Since this upgrade, we have problems with MS Office files that are opened read-only because already open by another user. This happens very often on the Windows 7 machines, quite often on Vista machines and I did not see it happen (yet at least) on XP machines. We found a workaround to avoid the problem : instead of double clicking on the shared file, if we right click on it and click on open, the problem does not happen, which seems really strange ! When I try to open the file from the Windows machine and it complains the file is already in use by another user, I checked on the samba side : - The file permissions are correct - There is no ~xxx file - The file is not open at all according to smbstatus At the same time, if I try to open the file on a Windows XP machine, I have no problem at all, whatever network user I use. Could anybody help ? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Read-only alert for MS Office files on samba share
THe point is that msoffice produces temp files while opening and writing. There is a solution around this in the mail listing years ago. I came over that problem by setting the sticky bit for the group according the shares. in your globals: nt acl support = no in your shares: sometimes if you have set the sticky bit it should be sufficient: inherit permissions = yes force group = yourgroup or, force create mode = 0660 force directory mode = 0770 force group = yourgroup good luck daniel #On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:42:35 -0500, Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.van...@gmail.com wrote: Which version of Office?Do you have full rights to the parent directory? Maybe it creates temp files in a different location? When you double-click the file, was office already running? I can't see why it would matter. ALl I can think is that when you double-click a document different parameters are passed to the file system. If I remember, in explorer when you associate file types with an app, you can also associate what the app should do with it. Can you set office to always create temp files on local drive rather than by default in the same directory as the file? On 01/07/2011 03:52 AM, Admin machines wrote: Hi everybody, We've been running a samba server for some time, which is used both as PDC and share space. Recently, we bought some new machines which came with Windows 7 installed. I struggled to find a solution to make them join the domain, and discovered I had to upgrade samba for that, which I did. We are now running version 3.4.9-42 on CentOS5. Since this upgrade, we have problems with MS Office files that are opened read-only because already open by another user. This happens very often on the Windows 7 machines, quite often on Vista machines and I did not see it happen (yet at least) on XP machines. We found a workaround to avoid the problem : instead of double clicking on the shared file, if we right click on it and click on open, the problem does not happen, which seems really strange ! When I try to open the file from the Windows machine and it complains the file is already in use by another user, I checked on the samba side : - The file permissions are correct - There is no ~xxx file - The file is not open at all according to smbstatus At the same time, if I try to open the file on a Windows XP machine, I have no problem at all, whatever network user I use. Could anybody help ? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
