Samba and Read Only documents

[Omer Barlas]

Richard Cameron @ 13-01-2009 15:45:
> Hi all. I recently installed Ubuntu 8.04 as a file server here on our
> little network. I set up samba to share files with the windows boxes
> here. However, when I got the whole thing up and running, several of the
> windows computers couldn't access the shared folder. I un-commented the
> lines "force user" and "force group". Now everybody can see and open the
> files. Unfortunately, all of our ms office documents come up as read
> only on the windows machines. I'm under the gun to get this fixed as
> quickly as possible, so any advice would be helpful.

openoffice locks files, it was said to be fixed on the next release. might
it be something related?

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Omer Barlas
omer at serbestcagrisim.com