[ale] OO unable to create file on a samba server

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 16:58 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> All,
> 
> The gui newbie again.  I have a samba based fileserver that everyone
> in the company uses.
> 
> I just tried to use calc to create file on there.  It says smb
> protocol is not supported for writing files.
> 
> Not exactly a friendly thing to say in a corp. env.
> 
> Fortunately I admin the samba server.  What do I need to do, share
> everything as nfs in addition to samba?

If the share is not currently mounted to a writable place on your
system, you will need to use either NFS or smbmount. OO can't pipe a
file through a connection protocol directly. The OS will handle that
part.
> 
> Or is it expected I create the files locally and copy them to the
> share drive when I'm done?
> 
> Thanks
> Greg
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