OOo and smb

[O. Sinclair]

Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> On Thursday 04 January 2007 22:50, O. Sinclair wrote:
>> Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 02 January 2007 05:28, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>> Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
>>>>> On Wednesday 27 December 2006 01:27, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>>>> Chris Miller wrote:
>>>>>>> I wasn't aware it didn't work.  Are there any other more detailed
>>>>>>> symptoms you can give me?  So far I have two mysterious black boxes
>>>>>>> in my head with a beige Cat5e cable strung between them suspended in
>>>>>>> the swirling mists of my mind's eye (on the familar, soft velvety
>>>>>>> black backdrop).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 12/26/06, Michael W. Holdeman <lists at ptfd.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>> I srill must solve this issue, How can I get OOo to open and save
>>>>>>>> files on smb shares?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have installed openoffice-gnome nd gnome-vfs, but still no go?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Mike
>>>>>> The problem is with Win2003 boxes, Chris. I am the one who tipped
>>>>>> about the gnome-vfs that I have had working before. Ooo only opens in
>>>>>> read-only on Win2003 shares unless you trick it by using cifs instead
>>>>>> of smb or load the gnome-vfs that does not have the problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mike - I am home on Xmas leave, when I get back in office I will do a
>>>>>> proper check on the boxes I have working.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sinclair
>>>>> Sinclair,
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is what I have done, I try with just OOo-2.0.4 running and it
>>>>> won't even open the docs, After installing openoffice-gnome, and
>>>>> gnome-vfs it will open read only.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am now also considering that the department wants to mount everyone's
>>>>> home directopries on this w2003 server, then they could login from any
>>>>> desktop in the department and have the same home. Is this working? Can
>>>>> I just add the parent share to fstab and mount it then just link to the
>>>>> various users homes? I take it I would have to assign each user account
>>>>> on each desktop the same UID, and then set it up to authenticate
>>>>> somehow with kde to the appropriate home upon login.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike
>>>> Here is the full string for mounting r/w an smb-share on a Win2003
>>>> server (running fine on Kubuntu Dapper 6.06 and Edgy 6.10)
>>>> Create a file "whatever.sh" with this string
>>>>
>>>> 'mount -t cifs //server-ipnumber/validservershare /mnt/validmntfolder -o
>>>> username=validuseronserver,password=passwordforthatuseronserver,user,
>>>> fmask=0111,dmask=0000'
>>>>
>>>> then make the file executable. Then you have to include it in the users
>>>> loginscript by copying it to /etc/init.d and run some command I can't
>>>> remember at this moment.
>>>>
>>>> Alternatively have the user run the script with sudo when they want to
>>>> mount their shares.
>>>>
>>>> Sinclair
>>> Is this in your opinion the best and esiest way to share ~home 's so you
>>> can login from anywhere in an office? Or would nfs be better? or another
>>> better solution?
>>>
>>> Mike
>>  From anywhere in the office it is not a good working solution as I see
>> it since you have to set up these scripts "everywhere". I would then
>> rather go nfs or even simply downgrade the server to W2000 server - if
>> that is an option...
> Not really an option
> 
>> note the problem is def. Ooo, smb and KDE - in Gnome Ubuntu this is a
>> non-existent problem. That is why I thought to gnome vfs might help. I
>> had it working at one time but you had to give username/password a
>> couple of times extra.
> I don't think that would really be a problem.
>> I have never managed to mount an smb share on a W2003 server so that Ooo
>> can open r/w using fstab etc. Sadly.
>>
>> So if users are not KDE-addicted you could opt for Gnome Ubuntu instead,
>> I am no hardliner myself.
> I did get the script to work, but not in ~/.kde/Autostart. I think this is 
> perhaps because I have tried several times but cannot get the editing sudoers 
> to work for me, I still have to execute it sudo and enter the password, since 
> these users are not admin priveledge this will not work.
> 
> I am close but really need to solve this soon...
> 
Well sorry Mike but I have exhausted my own tips/knowledge about this 
issue. I hope someone else can help you out! Or search ubuntuforums.org 
/ Kubuntuforums.net for a solution.

Sinclair