cannot open a file over my network

[Stephen Constantinou]

Dear Dan

Luckily the XP machine has not been changed.  Only the many
packages/update on the laptop.  I had not changed anything on the laptop
prior to the update.  I made another test.  I copied from the XP onto
the laptop an ODT file and was able to open it in OO without any
corruption or error messages.  To be complete I turned off the firewall 
(part of kaspersky) on the XP as well.  No resolution.

Is this anything to do with a firewall setting in Ubuntu.  I have not 
managed to find a firewall configuration in System Settings.  Perhaps a 
new package changed something, but I am at the edge of my knowledge to know.

any further help appreciated

Stephen

Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:46:07 +0100
> Stephen Constantinou <stephanos at writeme.com> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Dan
>>
>> Good advice.
>>
>> I can save and open a file on the Linux machine but I cannot save a
>> file onto the networked/XP machine.
>>
>> Hope that helps
> 
> It does.  It effectively proves that the network access is the problem,
> not the local openoffice software.  
> 
> If the windows computer changed at all, I would start looking for a
> misconfiguration issue there.  However, if it's only the ubuntu
> computer that changed, I'd avise that you think back to any
> configurations you changed to get the network fileshare working in the
> first place.  It is not unlikely that the ubuntu update overwrote some
> configuration changes you made.  
>