Re: Office 2008 Files: Read Only, POSIX, ACLs Frustration!

Hi Bill,

Unfortunately, after coming in this morning and taking your suggestion, I'm
still at the Read-Only problem. Here's my POSIX and ACL:

Folder is "PermTest" and contains several files of types .docx, .doc, .xls

Owner: LocalAdmin (UID 501), Read/Write
Group: admin (GID 80), Read/Write
Everyone: None

ACL:
LocalAdmin (UID 501):
Allow, Full Control, Inherited No
Decker12 (UID 1351912 [This me, who is a network Active Directory User]):
Allow, Read and Write, Inherited No

I have applied these permissions and propagated them to all the files in the
folder. All of those documents still open up - remember in Office 2008 only!
- as Read Only. Again, if I open any of the files in Text Editor or another
non Office app, they are *not* Read Only and I can edit them.

It's almost like the Office products need to see some sort of goofy
permissions, maybe something related to how it locks/unlocks files, or
autosaves them, or something similar? Something that is maybe not supported
by the OSX implementation of SMB? If I copy the same files to a shared folder
on my Windows 2003 server (and set the same permissions), the Read Only
problem goes away.
.