[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#396226: samba Messes up file permissions

[Geoff Crompton]

Geoff Crompton wrote:
> I'm also having this problem.
> 
> I can confirm that I get the same weird behaviour, ie what John Goersen
> said:
>   > When a user that is someone other than the Unix owner of the file
>   > writes to it, the permissions switch to 0474 (-r--rwxr--) and an ACL
>   > is added with this second user getting read/write permission to it.
> 

My tests show that this problem has occured with excel 2003, and word
2003, but not with just a text file and using notepad.

It might be related to https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1094.
I'm unclear from that bug report if the solution was found, or not.

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