On 1/25/06, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 21:51 -0500, Matt Morgan wrote:
> > On 1/25/06, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 19:57 -0500, Matt Morgan wrote:
> > > > I have a couple users, in a new install of a samba file server on
> > > > CentOS 4.2, who are being prompted to overwrite the existing file when
> > > > in MS-Excel and simply saving the active spreadsheet. Normally,
> > > > File--Save (or just clicking on the disk icon) for an already saved
> > > > file will re-save the file without prompting to overwrite.
> > > >
> > > > I have my doubts about whether this could be a server-side issue, and
> > > > suspect it's probably Excel, except
> > > >
> > > > 1) it started when I switched them from a Windows file server to the
> > > > Samba server;
> > > > 2) it happened to both of them at the same time;
> > > > 3) I've been working with Excel for a long time and never seen a
> > > > setting for this.
> > > >
> > > > Anybody have any idea what this could be, or how to diagnose it?
> > > > Googling gets me a few VBScript questions, nothing useful.
> > > >
> > > > FYI, the samba share is pretty basic, but I did increase the create
> > > > mask and directory mask settings, since these files are shared between
> > > > several users and they need to write each other's files. Apart from
> > > > that, no deviations from the norm.
> > > ----
> > > Excel is very peculiar in how it saves files.
> > >
> > > see
> > >
> > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.samba.general/60586/match=excel
> > >
> > > a lot of fixes were put into Samba-3.0.11 and I would guess that
> > > upstream incorporated many of the patches since I've not had complaints
> > > about that. Have you installed all updates?
> > > # rpm -q samba
> > > samba-3.0.10-1.4E.2
> > >
> >
> > Yes, that's the version I'm running.
> >
> > So I looked into this a lot more and realized there's a lot more to
> > file-locking, etc., than I realized. Thanks for pointing me in the
> > right direction. My other samba server (also CentOS 4.2, also samba
> > 3.0.10-14E2) only deals with Excel 97 and OOo clients, and it looks
> > like 2000/2003 create problems that 97 doesn't.
> >
> ----
> btw - bugzilla upstream has this entry...
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171897
>
> which references a fix from Microsoft
> (install OfficeXP - Service Pack 3)
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324491
>
> Craig
Craig, thanks for finding that for me! That sure looks like it will help.
