[wellylug] Read-only file permissions across network

[Xav Paice]

----- "Colin & Josephine Lewis" <cjlewis at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:

> I seem to be having a problem with Open Office documents created in OO
> on my laptop (running XP) coming up in read-only mode when transfer
> them across my samba network onto my linux box and then try to edit
> them in OO from there. Both machines are running OO3.1. I suspect it
> is something to do with network settings on my linux box as
> transferred files appear in nautilus file explorer showing a lock
> symbol, but can be opened for editing across the network from my
> laptop? Opening them for editing as a file copy and then saving the
> copy under a new file name does solve the problem, but is a nuscience
> factor I would rather not have to live with.
> Any suggestions on what the problem might be and ways to solve it
> would be appreciated.
> 
> Colin 
> 

I might be reading you wrong here, but I'm gathering you have the file actully located on a samba share from your laptop or a server somewhere, and you can open the file fine in Windows but on the Linux machine you need to copy it to a local area before you can open and save in OpenOffice, but can copy files to and from the server OK.  You probably need to mount the samba share (i.e. from bash 'smbmount' ) and open that way, rather than from Nautilus.  Nautilus isn't quite perfect in terms of opening a network location and providing that location to apps - unless someone knows a switch somewhere I don't know about?