Unexpected read-only for Word docs

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Lisa

I've noticed some very strange behavior on our system
recently (it started within the past month). I open a
Word document saved on our server, and after revising it,
I save it and get a message that it is Read Only. Then I
check the document properties, which are not checked Read
Only. Then I go around to see if somebody else has the
document open, and no one does. Is this happening to
anyone else? Does anyone know why this is happening and
how to fix it?
 
Lisa said:
I've noticed some very strange behavior on our system
recently (it started within the past month). I open a
Word document saved on our server, and after revising it,
I save it and get a message that it is Read Only. Then I
check the document properties, which are not checked Read
Only. Then I go around to see if somebody else has the
document open, and no one does. Is this happening to
anyone else? Does anyone know why this is happening and
how to fix it?
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By chance Word 2003? I've seen same ....
 
Lisa wrote:
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Word 2000 sp3
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I was seeing this with my new upgrade from Word 97 to Word 2003 ...
turned out that the root cause was how, starting with Office 2000, how
Word interacts with what I use as my network file system.

The network file system is based on Samba 2.27 running on Linux. It is
required to have in the [Global] section of smb.conf the variable:

nt acl support = no

This discovered per some searching on Google where I found
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/msg75443.html

You don't provide enough info for me to know if this the cause of your
problem but just in case you are connected to file shares via Samba on
Linux or Unix, thought I would mention this solution. Worked for me.
 
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