I’m stumped. 
My boss emailed me a .ppt file, which I edited and saved in a shared folder on a network drive. This morning, she opened the file and made some changes, but when she tried to save it, she got the message that it’s a read-only file, and she had to save it under a different name.
I checked the original .ppt file, which is clearly NOT marked as Read-Only under General/atttributes. I looked at the NFS Attributes, which show Read, Write, and Execute permissions for Owner and Group; I added the same permissions to “Other” and clicked “Apply” and “OK”. I opened the file, made a change, and saved and closed the file successfully.
Next, I called my boss and asked her to try to make a change. Again, she got the message that the file is Read-Only and was unable to save her changes to the original file.
I went back to the file and looked at the properties again, and the permissions I had added for “other” had been removed. However, “Read-Only” is still not checked.
Does anyone have any idea why another user would not be able to save changes to this file? Or why the permission settings didn’t take? Thanks!
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