RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive

Fellows, 

I think you're mixing apples and oranges.  Yogi's problem has nothing to
do with his DHCP service and is unlikely to be a router issue.

SMB (Server Message Block) and CIFS (Common Internet Files System) are
the same Microsoft controlled specifications. 

As a practical matter affecting LibreOffice use, what is variable is the
OS hosting and the implementation of the network file system resource.
CIFS is the native Windows flavor (slight differences each release from
Windows NT to Windows Server 2008 R2) while SAMBA is the reverse
engineered FOSS implementation of SMB/CIFS (again differences with each
implementation of Server or NAS operating system).

The question earlier and examples of problems Alex referenced were
mostly related to file locking issues on SAMBA implementations (on
multiple *nix flavors). I think there was an NFS locking issue as well.
Several referenced running the SAMBA instance with the -NORBL flag (No
Record Blocking) as a work around.

So the question to be answered by Yogi might be: what is the OS base of
your NAS--Windows (native CIFS and few issues) or a *nix hosted SAMBA?
And, what release for the service/daemon? Also, for the problem data, is
the partition mount set read/write in the related share configuration or
smb.conf and how is the lock mechanism handled.  Providing those details
and perhaps other about the NAS server, coupled with details on the
client experiencing access or stability issues would be more likely to
provide useful response and dialog.

Regards,

Stuart


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V Stuart Foote
Systems Analyst
Geological Sciences
The University of Texas at San Antonio




-----Original Message-----
> From: Yogi [mailto:baradj@hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 5:21 PM
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External
Drive
> Tom wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > Ahah, i was wondering what happens if you copy the files that don't
work
> > from the NAS back onto the machine you are using?  Do they work when
they
> > are back on your machine?  - using the NAS as back-up and storage but
not
> > for working on files actively?
> >
> > I don't know if there is a Windows command or something that would
> > identify whether you are using cifs or smb or something else.  It's
> > vaguely possible that by knowing the model of the router we might be
able
> > to find out what it's defaults are but i'm not sure i would want to
state
> > that sort of thing this publicly.
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
>
> Tom: The files that do not open on the NAS work fine when I copy them
back
> to the Windows desktop.  You are correct in that the NAS is simply
being
> used for backup, although it does have capability to do a lot more.  
>
> I don't see a problem with an open discussion about how to find out
what
> protocol is being used by default.  I would think that should be common
> knowledge, but apparently it's not.
>
> --



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