-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:25:11PM -0500, Charlie Brady wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > >There is a nasty bug on samba, up to 3.0.10, which causes Excel to > >incorrectly think a file was changes by someone else. > > > >This is a know issue, fixed on samba 3.0.11 (stock). A patch was > >also applied to samba on RHEL 3, but was NOT on RHEL 4. > > Do you ahve any references to RedHat bugzilla? Yes, #167920. Unfortunatelly, it is a restricted bug. This bug is listed on the RHEL 3 samba changelog: - - Include the (updated for 3.0.9) -excel patch to close bz#167920 Samba erroneously changes file date/time when opened by Excel Interesting enough, this entry is from Sep 2005. There is an interesting followup (plot twist?) on: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171897 Where we read: This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. That was on 2006-08-18. The bug is still open. []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFz+T7pdyWzQ5b5ckRAoFgAJ9DA7BMw8fzmD1enCKJFkE1nhBYjACfbATB mdXJif5sTR0Nc3qSzJEcTgM= =MK9e -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----