I know this must be a silly question but I have read through a whole book and several How-To's and extra chapters in various books. I have a Samba Server running under Mandrake 8.1. We can save, Retrieve and modify any files we palce on the server except Excel and Staroffice Spreadsheets. Only the original owner is allowed to edit. Going into the folder on the Server and altering permissions does not make any difference. If however we change the owner then a new owner can edit. When you save a spreadsheet the save takes ages and then errors with 'Save not completed. Rename failed. Retry' If we answer cancel we gwt a message saying the files has been saved in 8789Ew300 or some such name. I must have missed a permission somewhere but I cannot find it. Can anyone tell me what is happening and how to fix it. Thanks Matin -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
the permissions of the directory where the spreadsheet is stored must allow write access for everyone who is allowed to modify the spreadsheet files. it sounds like excel is attempting to rename a work file into the save file name, but it does not have the directory permissions to do so. martin@digconn.co.uk wrote:> We can save, Retrieve and modify any files we palce on the server except Excel and Staroffice > Spreadsheets. Only the original owner is allowed to edit. Going into the folder on the Server and > altering permissions does not make any difference. If however we change the owner then a new > owner can edit. When you save a spreadsheet the save takes ages and then errors with 'Save not > completed. Rename failed. Retry' If we answer cancel we gwt a message saying the files has been > saved in 8789Ew300 or some such name. > > > > --___cliff rayman___cliff@genwax.com___http://www.genwax.com/
I have seen this behafure on one of my machines aswell and this is NOT a samba issue. This is a client win 95 trying to store a excel file on a NT4 share. The problem in my situation was that McAfee was giving me troubles. I stopped the program and everything work ok again. Ries