[Linux] Re: Using Samba

[kerry]

I just tried in a recent Debian installation and I was able to open the 
document, but not lock it. Most of my installs are Fedora, or Centos and 
these are the units OO will not open from the win server. Unless there 
is a way to open the remote file after opening a copy of OO, the only 
way I see is to double click the file which triggers OO in this case. I 
will take a look at a plain text file and see what happens.

Peter Capazzi wrote:
> Can you open a plain text file from the server with something other than
> Open Office in the same directory? Maybe lower the version of the file? 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-admin@flux.org [mailto:linux-admin@flux.org] On Behalf Of
> kerry
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:09 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Linux] Re: Using Samba
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> OK, when I connect to the server, click on the document, Open Office
> starts to open it, but just fades into the sunset.
>
> Danny Rathjens wrote:
>   
>> Brian Faris wrote:
>>     
>>> I think that is how it is supposed to behave and you should get the 
>>> same behaviour if the file was stored on a windows server. When one 
>>> user open the file as read/write it is locked so other users can only
>>>       
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>>> open it in read-only mode. If this were not the case, one user could 
>>> open it and make some changes and at the same time another user could
>>>       
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>>> open it and made some changes, but the last user to save it would 
>>> over write the changes of the other user. Correct me if I am wrong.
>>>       
>> Right, you'd have to use a revision control system to allow several 
>> people to make changes at the same time.  The revision control system 
>> takes care of merging the differences and letting the user see any 
>> conflicts if they changed the exact same part.
>>
>> This .sig of yours is pretty crazy in length, Brian. 8^)
>>
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