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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.<BR>
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I hope this helps make things clearer.<BR>
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Colin<BR>
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On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 16:14 +1200, Xav Paice wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">----- "Colin & Josephine Lewis" <<A HREF="mailto:cjlewis@slingshot.co.nz">cjlewis@slingshot.co.nz</A>> wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I seem to be having a problem with Open Office documents created in OO</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> on my laptop (running XP) coming up in read-only mode when transfer</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> them across my samba network onto my linux box and then try to edit</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> them in OO from there. Both machines are running OO3.1. I suspect it</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> is something to do with network settings on my linux box as</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> transferred files appear in nautilus file explorer showing a lock</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> symbol, but can be opened for editing across the network from my</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> laptop? Opening them for editing as a file copy and then saving the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> copy under a new file name does solve the problem, but is a nuscience</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> factor I would rather not have to live with.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Any suggestions on what the problem might be and ways to solve it</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> would be appreciated.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Colin </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">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?</FONT>
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