this is the problem:

i have a 23 pc network.They were all running windows 98 and the server is a Linux redhat 9.0 machine.
All the shared folders at that time were ok.
Yesterday i have updated all the pc's to Windows XP professional.

NO OPERATIONS MADE ON THE LINUX SERVER!!!

now get this problem:
i can create any folder or file in the linux shared folder from any windows pc, but when i create a document (word, excel) or a dwg file with autocad, i can't overwrite it from the program itself.
i.e.

i create a document on the linux shared folder with autocad.
i save it on the shared folder.

----till now, no errors----

then i re-open that file,
i modify it,
when i tray to save it i get an error message that says that i can't save it.
The only way is to save with "save as..." option.

Any suggestion????
It is a big big problem, because any software using a database on the server or an auto-save feature is now crushing!!!


PLEASE PLEASE help me!!!!

thanks a lot

Maurizio B.

You probably have to modify your samba configuration. Windows 98 didn't care about user file permissions or anything like that. Windows XP cares (well, more than 98 anyway). So I imagine that now when one person creates a file on the share, another person can't modify it because they don't have permissions.

Not that I'm an expert, but a while ago I think I had the same problem. Don't remember whether I fixed it all in the smb.conf file or whether I also had to setuid bit on the directory I was sharing (so that all files were created with the same permissions/ownership).