John Aldrich wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > Dear John:
> >
> > Very reassuring to know that SO will save across all drives and
> > partitions. By the way, I have the same problem even when I use the
> > default Office51 Work folder and backup directories.
> >
> > By the way, what is NFS, please, and how does it factor into this
> > situation?
> >
> > Thanks so much.
> >
> NFS==Network File System, a way of sharing drives other
> than with SAMBA / NT. Try "man nfs" and see what comes up.
> :-)
> John
StarOffice is my vehicle for migrating a bunch of Windows users to linux
For my setup(s), save across mount points works
save to mounted rw devices works
save to nfs mounts works (and I am using knfsd)
I am unsure what the autogeneration of backup files means, but it
doesn't appear to work even in the workfolder. If I read in one format
and write (save as...) in another, I have both files afterward. If I
read in a file and save, then I would expect the automatic generation
of a backup file to work, and I'll be darned if I can find it.
What I did that is different from the othert posters regarding
success--(I tried a lot of combos and went with what worked)
Festen (5.3) with SO 5.1 -- will not navigate to mounted floppies for
backup
Any version--single user install --> Stuck on one printer no matter
how many are defined nor how loose the privileges are made.
6.0 with 5.1 OEM works fine with the single-user install stricture
6.1 with 5.1 OEM works
6.1 with 5.1a Installed with /net option in /opt/Office51 each machine
and users installed with workstation install--to wit
# cd /mnt/cdrom/linux/office51
# ./setup /net
and
$ /opt/Office51/bin/setup
This allows multiple printers and read/write to nfs mounts etc. It
seems to be the one with the fewest problems
Also works with Caldera 2.3 though 2.3 is a nasty one for networking
(have never been successful with dhcp though static works) and its
remote printer definitions leave MUCH to be desired (write your own
smbclient calls for smbprint) I set up a unix remote printer just to
serve the two machines that wouldn't take 6.1 (Cyrix MediaGXes).
So saving works... Not too sure about backup, but I consoider that one
a little less critical. I prefer to train my users as if no automated
backup exists no how no way. On the other hand, when I explicitly
killed StarOffice with XKill and later restarted it, it asked me if
I wanted to restore "Untitled" and I said yes and it brought up the
unsaved file. Perhaps this is what they mean by "backup"?
Civileme
