When I ran Vista I had a TERRIBLE time getting Windows Search to
release files. I know you said you shutdown search, but unless you stop AND disable
the service, it starts right back up again, so it could still be locking files
unless you’re really quick to get to it. Since you mention it’s
only with this one Vista machine, my instinct is to continue to target that
Search service. Despite Microsoft’s insistence that it backs off files
on demand, I have never experienced that feature.
Jon Galbreath
MCSE/Security+
Systems Administrator
International Studies and Programs
Ph: 517-884-2144
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duynslager
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:12 PM
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Subject: [MSUNAG] Weird Problem with Office 2007 Format Files and Office
2007 ³filenameis locked for editing by ³another user².
Has anybody seen this problem with a Vista
Client where when the user tries to open files off of a SMB server they get an
error:
“filename is locked for editing by “another user”.
This never happens it for .doc or .xls files only .docx and .xslx files.
The user has office 2007 SP2 with the latest updates.
You would think that indexing would be a read only access, anyways, I shut down
the windows search service to see if the files are being indexed at the time,
we still got the error.
There is no google desktop search installed and as far as I know no other program
is accessing this persons files. Indexing of that directory
is turned off.
When I use the MMC to display the servers share and the files open, often times
it will show the user has almost all if not all the files open in a read only
mode, like they’re being indexed, preemptively scanned for viruses or
something.
It only happens on this one vista machine, no other machines have this problem
and we’ve already used a couple of antivirus programs to scan for
malware.
I am going to download process explorer to see if that will tell me what
program has the file handles / files open.
Anybody observed this bizarre behavior, what’d you do to fix that.
LD
Lee Duynslager LD
Information Technology
107 CIPS
Michigan State University
432-5296