This happend couple of time to me. Every single time it was caused by crashed Excel or by forcing a lock by another Excel - one user opens the file and writes in it, while other users can only read it.
Could you paste output of smbstatus for that file, when you get access denied? ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium Status: New => Incomplete -- MS Office reports "Access Denied" when saving to samba share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337037 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs