On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 19:57 -0500, Matt Morgan wrote: > I have a couple users, in a new install of a samba file server on > CentOS 4.2, who are being prompted to overwrite the existing file when > in MS-Excel and simply saving the active spreadsheet. Normally, > File--Save (or just clicking on the disk icon) for an already saved > file will re-save the file without prompting to overwrite. > > I have my doubts about whether this could be a server-side issue, and > suspect it's probably Excel, except > > 1) it started when I switched them from a Windows file server to the > Samba server; > 2) it happened to both of them at the same time; > 3) I've been working with Excel for a long time and never seen a > setting for this. > > Anybody have any idea what this could be, or how to diagnose it? > Googling gets me a few VBScript questions, nothing useful. > > FYI, the samba share is pretty basic, but I did increase the create > mask and directory mask settings, since these files are shared between > several users and they need to write each other's files. Apart from > that, no deviations from the norm. ---- Excel is very peculiar in how it saves files. see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.samba.general/60586/match=excel a lot of fixes were put into Samba-3.0.11 and I would guess that upstream incorporated many of the patches since I've not had complaints about that. Have you installed all updates? # rpm -q samba samba-3.0.10-1.4E.2 Craig