Samba and OpenOffice - save file

[dhruva]

Hi,

On 2/20/07, Albrecht Schlosser <ajs567 at tiscali.de> wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> there seems to be a problem with writing an OpenOffice file more than once
> without closing it (open the file, modify, save, modify again, save or close the
> file (with saving)). There is an error message "write error" from OpenOffice,
> and the file can't be saved any more. After this error message, the file can't
> even be saved to another file name, neither on a Samba share, nor on a local
> disk. The latter problem seems to indicate that something is wrong with
> OpenOffice, too, but this seems to be a follow-up from the first write error. Of
> course, the problem does not arise, if you write the file (more than once) to a
> local disk, and I also tried it with another Windows share (i.e. a share on
> another windows system).
>
> System and test details:
>
> OpenOffice 2.0.2
> OpenOffice writer (*.odt) or calc (*.ods) file (maybe others, too)
> OpenVMS V7.3-2 on Alpha (DS15)
> Samba 2.2.8-20050817 (latest download from JYC's server)

HP is considering making a IFT/EFT release shortly of Samba on VMS
based on 3.0.24 code base. That would work on VMS 8.3 IA64 (and ALPHA
VMS 8.3) shortly. Maybe, you could try that.

-dky

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Dhruva Krishnamurthy
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