[Samba] Read-only alert for MS Office files on samba share

2011-01-07 Thread Admin machines
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

Re: [Samba] Read-only alert for MS Office files on samba share

2011-01-07 Thread Gaiseric Vandal
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

Re: [Samba] Read-only alert for MS Office files on samba share

2011-01-07 Thread Daniel Müller
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