[wellylug] Read-only file permissions across network

[Colin & Josephine Lewis]

I have a local network between my linux box and laptop with shared
directories on both machines under Samba.  When I transfer a file from
the laptop to the linux box and try editing it I get the error message
"This document cannot be edited, possibly due to insufficient access
rights".  Sory I am not a network expert, so maybe am not describing
things very well.  This may be related to the problem I get when trying
to access my laptop files from my linux box, which wants me to log on as
a guest user.  This has only started happening recently as well.  I can
see the shared folders from XP however and do transferes both ways from
that end.

I hope this helps make things clearer.

Colin

On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 16:14 +1200, Xav Paice wrote:

> ----- "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?
> 
> 
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