From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Description of problem: On samba share read-only users cannot open .xls files directly through windows explorer. If double-clicked file.xls in windows 2000 explorer, excel starts and error message is written: "'file.xls' could not be find. Check the spelling of the file name..." Same file could be opened directly from excel (File->Open) Tested with MS Office 2000 & Office 97 (and open office 1.1) Users with R/W access have no problems. We noticed this problem after migrating from RH7.3 to EHES-3. It seems, that this is konwn problem in samba, and resloved in samba ver: 3.0.1 http://www.mail-archive.com/samba@lists.samba.org/msg29702.html Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): samba-3.0.0-14.3E How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.create samba share e.g. [share] comment = myshare path = /mnt/share valid users = @shrgruop allow hosts = x.x.x. create mask = 644 force group = shrgroup directory mask = 754 writable = yes browseable = yes read list = user2, user3 2. map network drive from windows 2000 as user2 3. in windows explorer double click on any .xls file Actual Results: excel starts and file not found message is written Expected Results: excel starts and file not found message is written Additional info:
I've put RPMs of samba-3.0.2rc1 on http://people.redhat.com/fenlason/.samba . Can you try them and see if they resolve your problem. Note that these are un-qa'd packages of a release that is not intended for production use. If they solve your problem, I will attempt to get samba-3.0.2 included in the next quarterly update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
Problem is solved with updating to 3.0.2. Thank you