<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Shlomo Solomon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shlomo.solomon@gmail.com" target="_blank">shlomo.solomon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I have a partition on my computer defined as a share on Samba. A user<br>
on another machine can read and create files. Files are created as<br>
rw-r--r-- as intended. But even though the user can create a file, the<br>
new file can't be saved after editing/changing it.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>By the user?<br><br>Maybe it's a locking issue. Did you try on very simple programs, such as Notepad, that does not use lockfiles?<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I've looked at all the Samba parameters I could think of but can't find<br>
anything.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>If you're looking at locks, you should check the oplocks parameters...<br><br>See: <a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch05_05.html">http://oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch05_05.html</a><br>
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BTW - I always thought that "w" allows creating and also updating<br>
existing files. What am I missing here?<br>
<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br>In Linux you're (AFAIK) right, but there's another OS here, that may not be working the same way you think :) <br><br>I am assuming you already increased verbosity levels and tried to check the samba logs for the specific client, to see any errors there?<br>
<br>-- Shimi<br></div></div></div></div>