Can't save Openoffice file to mounted samba share

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Hi All,

I’m new to linux and I have managed to get it installed on the my laptop and I even managed to mount my freecom NAS network drive.

The issue that I now have is that I’m unable to save an openoffice in the openoffice format to my mounted NAS drive.

I would like to eliminate my windows install but before I’m able to do this I need to be able to write to my NAS drive directly from openoffice instead of writing to my laptop’s harddrive and then copying the file on to the NAS drive.

Could someone please help me with this issue, I have been searching the internet for a solution during the last week but all the solutions that are mentioned are not working.

Regards,
Peter

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When you said “mounted,” I assume you used (somewhere) a “mount” command like

mount -t cifs -o user=share-user-name,password=share-password,uid=my-linux-uid //server/share /mnt/nas

or its fstab equivalent. Using the above, do an

ls -ld /mnt/nas

and verify that your user has write access to the share. It would be helpful if you posted the mount command and an ls -ld on the mount point.

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Have you tried the nobrl option? See FAQ: “Using OpenOffice.Org and Word Files” in this: Samba: HowTo Mount a CIFS Network Share [AKA Map Network Drive] in openSUSE 10 & 11 plus FAQs

Might help.

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I mounted the drive by entering a line into fstab

//192.168.2.100/Downloads /home/petepall/downloads cifs username=name, password=pass 00

And I used several variants that I found on the internet. The problem is not mounting the drive since I was able to mount the drive and with the kwrite program I can write to the drive. However from openoffice this is not working.

swerdna,

Yes I tried using the nobrl optio and this also didn’t work for me.

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please post the results of
‘cat /proc/mounts’

this will show us the details of the mounted cifs share.

Thanks

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Hi all,

Just to keep you updated, I’m currently on a business trip and will post the results of mounts as soon as I’m back.

Regards,
Peter