Word for Mac on NFS share thinks documents are read only

I have a strange issue with am Unraid server running NFS shares.


Facts:

  • Running a fresh install of Word on a fresh Mac on a fresh Unraid server
  • Documents are on an NFS4 network share
  • The share and documents has all permissions: Read - Write - Execute
  • I can verify this by using "Get info" on a Word document and see that myselv, mygroup and all users has Read and Write. I can also verify directly on server. Documents are 777 (rwx for all)
  • Ready only is not set on document (as seen from Mac get info)
  • Locked is not set on document (as seen from Mac get info)


Symptoms:

  • When I open a document located on the share in Word on the Mac - it displays a message that the document is read only and only gives me the option do duplicate it. I can duplicate it fine and save to the network location, but when opening the duplicated document, I get the read only message again.
  • No other programs are behaving this way on the same share - Excel, Powerpoint etc works fine. I can even open a Word document in a text editor and are able to save it - so if it definitely not read only
  • If I create a new Word document and saves it to this network share - I get the same behaviour - it gets read only
  • If I map the network share using samba (SMB) protocol instead of NFS, it works fine - issue is only with NFS (but I prefer NFS due to speed & reliability when there are many files)


So somehow Word thinks that documents on the network share are read only - while they definitely not are read only.


Can this be related to MacOs sandboxing Word somehow? Can I turn this behaviour off?


Any ideas?

Mac Studio (2023)

Posted on Aug 21, 2023 11:53 PM

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Posted on Aug 22, 2023 12:27 PM

*** Update:


The issue seems to be NFS v4. If I mount using NFS v3 it works fine. I know that locking behaviour is done differently in NFS v4 - so this might be the issue.


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