Excel changes the ownership und the right of a file, who can help me to suppress this problem

[Sven Brüninghoff]

Hi,

i have a mysterious problem with Samba 2.2.2 and Excel resp. with windows in
a samba domain.
1. I have users x,y,z and two groups a,b. In group "a" are all users members
and in group b has only user z a membership.
2. I have a Samba share with valid user =x,z,y and all directories and files
under this share have rwxrwx--- rights with ownerships x:b or y:b.

Now the problem:
When i open a file with excel 2000 and save it, so excel change the
ownerships to the user and the group, in which the user is, who has saved
it. (z:a (because a is primary group for the user z))
If i open the same file with the editor of windows and i save it back to the
server, the ownership will not be changed. (x:b or y:b )
I want that excel could not change the ownership and the rights.

Does anybody know who to solve this problem ?? is it perhaps only a problem
with a setting of windows or samba ??

I have feeling that it is a problem of the temporary files, which are
created by MS Office 2000 , because only excel 2000 and word 2000 create
this problem.

[Walter Mautner]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:56:36 +0100, "Sven Brüninghoff"
<s.bruen...@airmail-center.de> wrote:

>Now the problem:

Once more, you must call it a feature :)

>When i open a file with excel 2000 and save it, so excel change the
>ownerships to the user and the group, in which the user is, who has saved
>it. (z:a (because a is primary group for the user z))
>If i open the same file with the editor of windows and i save it back to the
>server, the ownership will not be changed. (x:b or y:b )
>I want that excel could not change the ownership and the rights.
>
>Does anybody know who to solve this problem ?? is it perhaps only a problem
>with a setting of windows or samba ??
>

Office applications don't work on the primary file. They create a copy
with permissions of the currently active user, afterwards rename the
old file (if told to keep backups) to *.bak and save the copy with the
original name (but not original permissions).
In your case, you can circumvent the issue with
"force group = b" for this share.

Greetings from Vienna :)

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>I have feeling that it is a problem of the temporary files, which are
>created by MS Office 2000 , because only excel 2000 and word 2000 create
>this problem.
>

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