[Linux] Re: Using Samba

[kerry]

I can open a plain text file with kwrite, also pdf files and some images 
will open from Konqueror. So, the problem seems to be with OO/Fedora in 
this case.

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? 
>
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> 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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