Possible Permissions Issue 2

[teckiejon]

Its a long shot and you may need more information from me but I'm hoping that someone has come across something similar. I have a user on XP Pro who is trying to save any type of document to his homedrive (.doc, .csv and so forth) but when he comes back to the document to modify it he is told that he can't as its read only. The Homedrive is on a 2003 server if this helps at all. I have given him full permissions for his homedrive and admin rights on the local machine that he is working on. Could anybody point me in another direction. One thing to note though is that as him I was able to create a sub directory within his homedrive move a document into it and then delete the subdirectory. Any advice gratefully received

 

[kjv1611]

Is the user saving the documents as read only? I believe that if the user saves the document as read only, then it is read only, whether they try to open it, or if someone else tries to open it.

Stephen
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6 KJV

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;814112

 

[teckiejon]

That would make sense. When I go into my save as dialog box and select tools|properties there are the options of read only and so forth is this where I would make the changes?

 

[kjv1611]

I would imagine so.. I would just advise the user to not save as read only, and just password protect if does not want others to be able to view/edit the file, and just make the choices as to what to allow.

Stephen
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6 KJV

 

[bcastner]

It is not a user error, it is an SMB signing and possibly an opportunistic locking issue.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;814112

 

[teckiejon]

Unfortunately the user is out of the office at the moment so I shall have to try out the read only saving theory when he is back.
bcastner many thanks for your assistance too I will read up on this issue. If it is an issue on the server should I not be getting more complaints about it from people though? Maybe people just arent using their user drives!

Thanks again both of you

 

[bcastner]

SMB issues are often not repeatable in a Workgroup or Domain. There are adapter driver, physical cable plant, MTU settings, and latency that make the issue complicated.

As a start, see:

. All of the links in the MS KB I provided above
. faq779-4017
.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315237