Re: Help! File permissions keep changing...

[John Hardcastle]

Well done Stefano! Hhayes, have a look at your mask setting near the top of /etc/samba/samba.conf.  You should be able to make samba behave the way you want, even with Excel files, now you know that Excel is deleting then rewriting the files. Another way to prove files were being deleted and rewritten would be to list the inode number of the file before and after changing its contents.  If the inode differs then you have an entirely different file. ls -i file Rgds John On 02/19/04 08:17, Hhayes wrote: I didn't realize that Excel did that, but you are right. I just noticed that it is only effecting Excel files. It just so happend that the directories that I was looking at contained only Excel files, but after checking, all other file types seem to be working fine. Thanks. "Stefano Salvi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Are you shure? As far as I know, when you save a file in Excel, the file is not overwritten, but is copied to a temporary file, then the old file renamed and the new file is renamed. Stefano Salvi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]