Re: (OT) Open Office - save over network (smb??)

From: ac (_at_candt.demon.co.uk)
Date: 09/21/05 

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 06:24:10 +0100

Karen wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:38:22 +0100, ac wrote:
>
>> 1) Does anyone here use OO.o 'save as' (or save) over an smb network
>> using some (easy?) work around please? 2) Does anyone know if this 'save
>> as' function will work for OO.o if I set up an NFS system on the
>> relevant machines?
>
> If your smb or nfs shares are mounted then they will show up in the "save
> as" list. So the easy work around is to mount the directories you want to
> save to. Move up the default directory "save as" opens to and do not use
> the "network folders" icon if that's what is giving you problems.
> Karen

Thanks Karen. directories are all mounted, but it seems to be more
associated with open office org for linux (kde use), maybe in the
versions of oo.o I am using, than the linux configuration. oo.o works ok
in this respect in 'doze over the smb network.
If there is a way of doing it which is not pointy clicky I would be
interested, but, it is not really for me, it is for someone else who
*definitely* requires a 'doze compatibility (oo.o) and very pointy
clicky.....

OO.o and smb network function from linux does not seem to have been a
priority for development. Understandably I suppose.

Anyway, nfs is now being used, and does look very straightforward, and
apparently its use solves the problem for oo.o. 

-- 
alanc

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