Re: [libreoffice-users] Why can't I open/save documents in my network (SAMBA) Computers?

Hi André,

André Luiz Romano Madureira wrote:
> Em 06-03-2011 13:42, Lorenzo Sutton escreveu:
> > Hi,
> >
> > André Luiz R. M. wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Problem:
> > >
> > > When I try to open/save a document in another computer (in SAMBA 
> > > Network) the LibreOffice (BrOffice 3.3.1 in my case) alerts that 
> > > this task cannot be done because I'm trying to save/open a remote 
> > > file...
> > >
> > > Question:
> > >
> > > Is there a solution/workaround for this? Is this a bug, or was it 
> > > done to act at this way on purpose?
> >
> > On (plain) ubuntu 10.04 I daily open/save files on samba shares, but 
> > these are mounted at boot (they have entries in the /etc/fstab)... So 
> > you might investigate how they are mounted, but not being a KDE 
> > expert I guess I may be missing some internals (e.g. I know there are 
> > some issues in some applications with gnome virtual file system which 
> > manages shares if you use the 'network' interface etc.)?
> >
> > Lorenzo
> > > MY INFO:
> > > Running KUBUNTU 10.10 (Linux Kernel version 2.6.35-27-generic-pae; 
> > > KDE 4.5.1; NVIDIA GEFORCE 9600 GT; INTEL QUAD CORE 2.66; 
> > > MOTHERBOARD  INTEL DG35EC; 4GB RAM)
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help,
> > >
> > > André M.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
>
> Hello Lorenzo,
>
> Ok... But how can I map (mount at boot via /etc/fstab) my paths that 
> have these files in Ubuntu 10.10 (I think Kubuntu have the same way of 
> dealing with the mounting issue)?

*DISCLAIMER* In the following modification of the /etc/fstab file is 
mentioned. This should only be done if you know exactly what you are 
doing, additionally the examples *will not* work and should be only be 
considered as such.

Well I guess this gets a little Off topic here. You should look into 
CIFS mounting, and test depending on your samba configuration. Just to 
give you an idea, after much experimenting *my* optimal mount has the 
following kind of entry in /etc/fstab

//ip_to_samba_share/root_folder  /media/dir_where_to_mount_it_locally  
cifs   
uid=1001,gid=1001,credentials=/etc/samba/user,iocharset=utf8,noexec  0 0

//ip_to_samba_share/root_folder is the IP plus the root folder you want 
to use for the mount something like //10.16.10.10/MySamba

/media/dir_where_to_mount_it_locally is the path to the local dir on 
your system where to mount the samba share e.g. /media/sambashare

uid=100,gid=1001 these are the user's uid and gid. I dug these up in the 
CIFS man page after quite some research , as not setting these in the 
entry was giving me permission troubles (I could only read and not write)

credentials=/etc/samba/user This points to a file with username and 
password (if required) to the samba share (see the man for this!)

iocharset=utf8 Again had to do quite some research to discover this was 
needed to correctly display file names on the share I'm using.

Of course if you were on gnome my suggestion would also simply be that 
if you can't see the 'Network' entry in file selection dialogues you can 
always go to the hidden directory .gvfs in your home which is where 
gnome virtual file system actually mounts the shares.

Hope this helps and good luck,
Lorenzo.



> Thanks for your help,
>
> Andre M.

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