office 2007 excel files will not open

[Diana Townsend]

We started upgrading our office package to office 2007. No problems right off the bat, but all of a sudden there are excel files stored on our linux file server that people store and share. Some of them you can open and some of them you can not open and it doesn't give a reason you can't open them it just says can't open file anyfile.xls
I attached a word doc with pic of error in excel. But it doesn't tell you much.

[bigtomrodney]

By any chance is it only failing when you try to open with versions earlier than Office 2007?

[Diana Townsend]

All excel files are saved as 2003 or 97-2003 formats. The weird thing is if I copy the file out of the linux server to my desktop, I can open it with no problems but not when it sits on the server.

[bigtomrodney]

It appears there is a problem around NT ACLs. They need to be disabled (not ideal, I know) to get around this problem.

Samba file permission issue with Microsoft Office

[Diana Townsend]

thanks for the link. I will see if this helps and let you know. Thanks again.

[Diana Townsend]

I found my smb.conf file and this is how it reads
[homes]
Comment = Home Directories
Valid Users = %S, %D%W%S
browseable = No
Read Only = No
inherit acls = yes

what do I do? just add nt acl support = no to this file?? Sorry i'm sort of new on linux and am learning as I go.

[bigtomrodney]

I haven't had this problem myself, but from the article it appears to be around acls generally and not specifically one option. If I was trying it myself, I'd remove that line and restart the samba services and test again. If that doesn't resolve it put it back in and restart again and post back to let us know.