Samba and XEmacs and read-only

[Hilmar Berger]

QZ <wildcat4096 <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> 
> 
> Searching the forums it appears this problem is not new but perhaps it has
been assumed to no longer be an issue.  Tonight I tried to edit a file served by
Samba with XEmacs 21.4.20, 21.4.21, and 21.5-b28.  Each attempt and each version
yielded the same result.  I.e. XEmacs would open the file read-only ignoring
true permissions.  After opening the file read-only, I would M-X
toggle-read-only, make my changes, and save.  This work around unfortunately
does not help if the file does not exist as XEmacs refuses to make files in
directories served by Samba.  It seems to think that all directories ar
>  e read-only.For what it is worth, this is not a problem with GNU Emacs 22.1. 
(I've been using XEmacs for years and would hate to switch now though :(
>  )If there is any more information that would be helpful or any work around
please contact me.

Hi all,

I had the same Problem when I upgraded from 21.4.19 to 21.4.21 (see my post in
this list from 2007-10-29. I noticed that just in between these two versions
something was changed in the handling of permissions in windows. More info can
be found in my last post.

Regards,
Hilmar


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