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Excel 2007 saving process fails when files are opened over the LAN

Hello

Layout: I am hosting a file server on Linux (Samba), from there users are opening files (edit, create/delete, view) over the LAN.
Scenario: a user is opening an excel file and edits it. When he's asked to save the file and confirms, nothing gets save and a *.tmp file appears instead of the original file.
So far i have notice that:
-it's not user or file related not even location is the same.
-it does not matter if the file is in xls, xlsx or xlsm format.
The common thing:
-all users are using the MS Excel 2007 with SP2.

Any advice? It seems that i'm lost in this issue.

Regards,
Cosmin C.

raysonlee

Probably you don't have the rights setup properly.
Try use
force user=myuser
or
force group=mygroup
and make sure the user/group has appropriate rights by:
create mask = 0777
force create mode = 0777
directory mask = 0777
force directory mode = 0777

Cosmin Curticapean

ASKER

Hello

maby I should of have added that this behaviour started after the upgrade to MS Office 2007, samba server had settings done a long time before and had no problem like this. I did check them, now they look like this:

[Directory]
comment = Common data directory for each department
path = /usr/XXXXXXX
browseable = yes
writeable = yes
read only = no
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
force directory mode = 0777

I've added the last line, and modified the masks from 777 to 0777 for the other two.

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