RE: [Samba] Merely Opening Excel Files Increments Last-Modificationdate on Samba Shares

2004-05-24 Thread Eric Heintzberger
? I am experiencing the same problem with samba 3.0.2-6.3E. Thanks, Terry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Heintzberger Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 8:17 PM To: RRuegner Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] Merely

Re: [Samba] Merely Opening Excel Files Increments Last-Modification date on Samba Shares

2004-04-17 Thread Eric Heintzberger
the file. There would have to be some writing too. Are you saying that MS-Excel is designed so that reading an xls file in MS-excel actually writes changes to the file, even if the end-user does not save or auto-save any changes? Regards, --- RRuegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Heintzberger

Re: [Samba] Merely Opening Excel Files Increments Last-Modification date on Samba Shares

2004-04-17 Thread Eric Heintzberger
Thanks for the information. The problems and solutions you cite *are* related, I think, because I have found that my problem occurs only on Excel files that the user does not own -- an important fact I didn't see before. --- RRuegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Heintzberger schrieb: Thank

Re: [Samba] Merely Opening Excel Files Increments Last-Modification date on Samba Shares

2004-04-17 Thread Eric Heintzberger
It would appear that this problem can be avoided by putting force user = someuser in the relevant share definition, and then doing chown someuser on the relevant excel files. --- Eric Heintzberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the information. The problems and solutions you cite

[Samba] Merely Opening Excel Files Increments Last-Modification date on Samba Shares

2004-04-16 Thread Eric Heintzberger
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