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

2004-05-25 Thread Kit
I have had the same problem: Shared files, not owned by the user in question, were being deleted and re-written upon saving the file. Because Excel only gives user (not group) permission, it will muck up access for other users in the group. In my case, I was not enforcing anything (when the

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

2004-04-17 Thread RRuegner
Eric Heintzberger schrieb: 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

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

2004-04-17 Thread Eric Heintzberger
Thank you for responding to my post. As for your question, my concern is not that (as you put it) the date of last modification [is] the date of the file. It is, rather, this: If today I do cat file.txt on a text file whose last-modifiation date is December 23, 2003, I would not expect ls -l

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

2004-04-17 Thread RRuegner
Eric Heintzberger schrieb: Thank you for responding to my post. As for your question, my concern is not that (as you put it) the date of last modification [is] the date of the file. It is, rather, this: If today I do cat file.txt on a text file whose last-modifiation date is December 23, 2003,

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 *are*

[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