PC Excell on Server 10.4

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peteoz

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G'day folks, I'm a NewB to this forum but have been working in Mac Administration for nearly two decades.

I'm having an issue that I hope someone here can help with...Here's the story:

Xserve G5 running Server 10.4.4 on a mixed network.

There are 3 PC machines that are having issues with serving files.

All 3 machines are running XP with latest Service Packs. and latest revisions of office 2003.

PCs can freely read write and delete files with no issues, but if you open an excell document from the server and attempt to save it back to the server it errors and corrupts the file.

They are working around it by dragging the files to the desktop, working them and dragging them back.

I suspect a permissions issue, but it doesn't make sense that they have full permissions unles writing from an office application.

Any ideas?
 
I have seen this at a few sites and can say that its not limited to you (ie possibly a bug). I would suggest using your workaround and testing the newest builds of Mac OS X and Office to see if this issue has been rectified.

Is this workaround viable for you? I understand you'd prefer to use the files directly from the server, but I suspect your in better shape working locally right now.
 
All software is fully up to date withthe exception of 10.4.4 not updated to 10.4.5 yet, but the problem has been ongoing since 10.3.0. not one update to XP, Office or OS X has had any impact on it.

The work around works, but it's maddening that it doesn't work the way it should.
 
Have you checked the permissions on the shares located in the XServe? It's possible that maybe the permissions are being changed from the Windows client machines. This is just a hunch but from what you're saying about the files getting corrupted on saves it's possible that it might be a permissions issue.
 
Here's more info on what's happening. On the Mac, if I check the file before trying to open it on the XP box, all permissions are as they should be. the PC user is in a group, and the owner is the group, with all group memebers read and write. All other uses have no permissions. The XP box opens the file, edits it and attempts to save it. XP box gets a file sharing error, file goes bad. If you then look at the permissions on the Mac, the owner has changed from the group, to that XP user, and the permissions have changed to none. Funny thing about this is that the group can still access the file.
 
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