OOo and smb

[Michael W. Holdeman]

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...

Mike