Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] help: exchanging excel with samba and netatalk
From: Vivek (vivek@imaginet.co.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 16 1998 - 11:30:19 EST
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Peter Bolmehag wrote:
> a mac. But when i use excel5 i run into problems. I get strnge notes about
> filess being write protected even though I can see that they are open for
> write and read to all by unix permissions.
>
> An excel5 document saved on a pc will give "file write protected" when
> opened on a mac via netatalk. I have set my samba system to use mode 666
> when creating any files. So it is rw for everyone always.
>
> strange...
You're not running into some Samba/Windows locking thing here are you?
How long does this behaviour persist for after the file is saved out from
the PC? Maybe this is one for the samba list...
-- fsck -f -b 8193 /dev/cortex
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