Cannot save to mounted filesystem.

[pdstevenson]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel When I access an Excel file on a smb mounted server, I can open it fine, but when I try to save, I get a message like

Microsoft Excel cannot access the file 'phs3ps:docs:CEE28210'.

/Volumes/phs3ps is the name of the mount point and docs is the directory the excel file is in. The CEE28210 file is actually created as an empty file, and I get one generated every time I try to save.

This also occurs if I have mounted the remote directory with sshfs, so I don't think it's specifically a samba thing. It doesn't happen with other apps (e.g. I can edit a file mounted remotely in emacs and save it again without complaint.)

Excel 2008 version 12.2.4
OS X version 10.6.2

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor:
Intel When I access an Excel file on a smb mounted server, I can open it
fine, but when I try to save, I get a message like

Microsoft Excel cannot access the file 'phs3ps:docs:CEE28210'.

/Volumes/phs3ps is the name of the mount point and docs is the directory
the excel file is in. The CEE28210 file is actually created as an empty
file, and I get one generated every time I try to save.

This also occurs if I have mounted the remote directory with sshfs, so I
don't think it's specifically a samba thing. It doesn't happen with
other apps (e.g. I can edit a file mounted remotely in emacs and save it
again without complaint.)

Excel 2008 version 12.2.4
OS X version 10.6.2

When Excel saves a file, it creates a temp file, saves to that file,
deletes the original, and then renames the temp to the original. so,
make sure you have all necessary privliges on the share to create and
delete files.

 

[pdstevenson]

When Excel saves a file, it creates a temp file, saves to that file,

> deletes the original, and then renames the temp to the original. so,
> make sure you have all necessary privliges on the share to create and
> delete files.

Thanks for the reply,

I think I do have all the necessary permissions: Whether this directory is mounted via Samba or sshfs I can read, write, create and modify files in other applications, including in the finder or terminal. The temp file (I presume the file called CEE28210 in my example above) even gets created, albeit with zero size. When I look at the permissions of the temp file in Finder it says "you can read and write" and in the terminal it says -rw- which is what I'd hope.

Paul

Paul

 

[pdstevenson]

As a followup, this effect only occurs with .xlsx files. Excel is able to save .xls files on the mounted filesystem. Does that help? It baffles me.

 

[pdstevenson]

As a followup, this effect only occurs with .xlsx files. Excel is able to save .xls files on the mounted filesystem. Does that help? It baffles me.

To followup again, tweaking the samba configuration seems to fix this, though I still don't understand why it wouldn't work over sshfs, and why other apps are not affected. Presumably something to do with extended attributes

 

[steve_bf]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone can shed any more light on this.

We have 5 MacbookPros sharing a NAS device which is mounted with full permissions. There are also 6PCs connecting to the same NAS.

We have had no issues for the last 10 months when we started getting our first macs.

Then last week, we started getting the exact same message. It started with just one or 2 excel files now ALL files produce this message when saving from MAC to NAS

If we save to the desktop and then copy instead of "save" we get a message "The operation cant be completed because you dont have the necessary permissions to access some of the items.

We have tried saving as both .xls and .xlsx

This only happens in Excel.

There are no problems with Word, PPoint, jpegs or other file types.

Any suggestions or advice would be great.

Steve

Excel 2008 12.2.4
Snow Leopard 10.6.3

 

[steve_bf]

Then last week, we started getting the exact same message. It started with just one or 2 excel files now ALL files produce this message when saving from MAC to NAS

"correction to ALL files"
 should read ALL EXCEL files

 

[John McGhie]

Answered your earlier... Please do not multi-post on the same issue, keep
it all in one thread if you can.

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone can shed any more light on this.

We have 5 MacbookPros sharing a NAS device which is mounted with full
permissions. There are also 6PCs connecting to the same NAS.

We have had no issues for the last 10 months when we started getting our first
macs.

Then last week, we started getting the exact same message. It started with
just one or 2 excel files now ALL files produce this message when saving from
MAC to NAS

If we save to the desktop and then copy instead of "save" we get a message
"The operation cant be completed because you dont have the necessary
permissions to access some of the items.

We have tried saving as both .xls and .xlsx

This only happens in Excel.

There are no problems with Word, PPoint, jpegs or other file types.

Any suggestions or advice would be great.

Steve

Excel 2008 12.2.4
Snow Leopard 10.6.3

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