Topic: Office XP?

[Justin Miller]

Hi All

I think that I tried to do a pretty extensive search for an answer to this before posting (including devinfo).  But if there is an answer in a previous post that I missed, please forgive me.

I have SME 5.1.2 with Windows 2k and Windows XP clients.  On one of my XP clients, I have recently installed Office XP (SP1).  

Using Office XP (SP1) / Windows XP, I am unable to save changes to any Office files that reside on my e-smith box (I-bay),  including home directories.

What happens is this.  I can create the file in Excel / Word XP and save it to the network drive and everything works.  However, when I pull up any file in any of my network drives, make changes, and attempt to save, I get a XP GPF in module NTMARTA.DLL.  I have searched MS support pages and determined this DLL is used to read ACL info on directory.  

I know that SAMBA doesn't support ACL's, but I'm pretty sure that these same functions work in Office 2K?

Any ideas?

One item of note is that Access XP seems to work fine, but I get the same error when trying to read security settings on a network file/folder using Windows Explorer Properties.

Thanks in advance
Justin Miller

[dave rose]

I don't have an answer to your post, but I'm sure I read Samba has ACL support.

I'll bet you'd like an excerpt ...

ACL support
The next incredibly cool Samba 2.2 feature is its new support for access control lists, or ACLs. As many of you know, Windows NT and 2000 use ACLs to set permissions on files and directories, and they offer a much finer-grained control over permissions than the traditional "one user, one group" solution that most Unix systems use. Up until now, Samba has had no way to store ACLs directly on the filesystem, since there was no ACL support available for Linux. But now, we're starting to see the beginnings of ACL support -- an ACL kernel patch for Linux kernel 2.4.3 is currently available (see Resources below), as well as several user-space tools. ACL support is now fully-supported in Samba 2.2.0.

Here's its source:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/l-samba/?dwzone=opensource


Hmmm.  Maybe you'd need the 2.4 kernel which isn't supported in this SME server...

Dave