SSH and OOo

[Kelly L. Fulks]

Stew Schneider wrote:
> Box A is running as a file server, on Dapper, if I recall correctly. Box 
> B (in the same office) is running Gutsy with a Gnome desktop (sorry!). I 
> want Box B to access some shares from Box A.
> 
> That shouldn't be too hard, should it? Well, I've made it pretty hard. 
> Can someone tell me where I'm screwing up?
> 
> On Box B: I click Places|Browsing and get nowhere. It will show the 
> server, but clicking it reports that it cannot open any of the files. 
> The account from which I'm running on Box A exists on Box B, and at 
> least one of the shares is 777.
> 
> So, I connect to the shares via ssh, and I can see the shares and the 
> files. If I double click a document, OpenOffice tries to open it, but 
> then throws a dialog saying User: mike and asks for the password. No 
> matter what we enter, the dialog returns, now with no User field, still 
> begging for a password.
> 
> On the other hand, if I simply drag the file to the desktop and double 
> click it, OOo opens it fine.
> 
> Why can't OpenOffice open the file "where it sits" on Box A? Permissions 
> are:
> 
> rwxr_xr_x mike:staff
> 
> stew
> 
> 

First if you are doing Linux to Linux, I would use NFS instead of Samba
to do the networking.  If you want everything to happen automatically
there are a few technologies that you might want to look into.  First
look into NIS for your passwords (NIS is a kind of domain authentication
for Unix and has been around for a couple of decades now, it used to be
called YP or YellowPages).  The file server could also be your NIS
server and then your passwords would stay the same between the two
machines.  NFS for your sharing of drive space is easy to setup when the
username/userid's match between the two machines.  Then you could look
at autofs on the "client" machine so that the drive space would mount
on-demand and unmount when not needed.

As far as I know, OOo doesn't under stand "fish" (files over secure
shell).  I have tried that in the past, but always returned to NFS or Samba.


-- 
Kelly L. Fulks
Home Account
near Huntsville, AL