[svlug] SOLVED - OpenOffice 2.0 can't write to mounted drives

[Skip Evans]

Hey all,

Kept on Googling and found this:

http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computing/debian/bugs/openoffice-over-nfs.jspx

I hope that letting others know of the solution is 
at least partial penance for firing off the email 
before I finished my Googling.

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The only downside of this work around is that it 
turns off file locking altogether so two people 
could open a file for writing.

Open the file /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice 
(generally /opt/openoffice2/program/soffice on 
non-debian based machines) and comment out the 
following lines:

# file locking now enabled by default
SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1
export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING
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For our small shop, however, the ability to write 
across NFS is a must, so we will just exercise 
extra caution about modifying the same file by two 
people, something that virtually never happens 
anyway, since the docs are all project related and 
we basically assign one coder to a project, or at 
least a lead who maintains the docs.



Skip Evans wrote:
> Skip Evans wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I am trying to write from OpenOffice.org Work 
>> Processor (OO 2.0) to a mounted drive on a FreeBSD 
>> 6.1 server.
> 
> Obviously that should be 'Word' Processor.
> 

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