Hi, all, there seems to be a problem with writing an OpenOffice file more than once without closing it (open the file, modify, save, modify again, save or close the file (with saving)). There is an error message "write error" from OpenOffice, and the file can't be saved any more. After this error message, the file can't even be saved to another file name, neither on a Samba share, nor on a local disk. The latter problem seems to indicate that something is wrong with OpenOffice, too, but this seems to be a follow-up from the first write error. Of course, the problem does not arise, if you write the file (more than once) to a local disk, and I also tried it with another Windows share (i.e. a share on another windows system).
System and test details: OpenOffice 2.0.2 OpenOffice writer (*.odt) or calc (*.ods) file (maybe others, too) OpenVMS V7.3-2 on Alpha (DS15) Samba 2.2.8-20050817 (latest download from JYC's server) When Office file are saved the normal way from a windows system, they are written in stream format. When updating such a file, it works fine once, but when somebody tries to save the file a second time _without_ closing it, then the file can't be written. In this case, I couldn't find a message in the Samba user log file. Then, I made some experiments with changing file attributes (set file/attr=rfm:udf and/or /attr=rfm:fix and /attr=lrl:512 /attr=mrs:512). With this setup, I could get error messages, but maybe that doesn't help. FWIW, here they are (the original file name is "a.ods", but the delete error states that "a0.ods" could not be deleted): [2007/02/20 14:19:00, 0] DISK$SWAP:[JYC.SAMBA.SAMBA-2_2_8-SRC.SOURCE.SMBD]FILEIO .C;2:(42) seek_file: (test/a.ods) sys_lseek failed. Error was invalid argument [2007/02/20 14:19:07, 0] DISK$SWAP:[JYC.SAMBA.SAMBA-2_2_8-SRC.SOURCE.VMS]VMS_SUP PORT.C;356:(1129) vms_delete error file : test/a0.ods : file currently locked by another user [2007/02/20 14:21:34, 0] DISK$SWAP:[JYC.SAMBA.SAMBA-2_2_8-SRC.SOURCE.SMBD]FILEIO .C;2:(42) seek_file: (test/a.ods) sys_lseek failed. Error was invalid argument [2007/02/20 14:21:43, 0] DISK$SWAP:[JYC.SAMBA.SAMBA-2_2_8-SRC.SOURCE.VMS]VMS_SUP PORT.C;356:(1129) vms_delete error file : test/a0.ods : file currently locked by another user Can anybody else confirm these problems, or does anybody know how to avoid this? Thanks in advance Albrecht PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html