On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > I'm trying to move a bunch of files off my desktop on to a server > and still be able to access them from my rover (eeePC 100 running > Fedora 12) and the workstation (CentOS 5). > > I have two issues with this setup. One _rather_ important (files > open in OOo as read-only) and the other an irritation (Fedora > insists on labeling the icon on the desktop with *everything* about > the mount.) > > So first problem. When I do a Menu -> Connect to Server and fill in all > the important information: Service type:SSH, Server: host.example.com, > Folder: /home/user, Name to use for the connection: u...@host I get > connection and I've copy/cut and pasted to the mount point, dragged and > dropped to it and subdirectories with no problems. But ... when I open > one of the files with OOo (Calc) it opens as read-only. Permissions are > fine. The only hick-up is the owner and group IDs that show in File > Browser window are those on the server which is not what I have on the > workstation or rover. But if I edit a text file with gedit I can.
OOo files are compressed collections of several files, aren't they? I wonder if the problem is that you're not working on that file directly, but on its contents. That would jibe with being able to do straight text editing with gedit while being unable to use Calc files. -- Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
