[libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive

2011-10-25 Thread V Stuart Foote
==Posted from the Nabble Web Interface== Yogi, So reading into it, your Synology DS109 should be a Linux 2.6. based kernel. Your Windows shares are coming to you from the NAS as SMB/CIFS from a Samba 3.2.x package under Linux. So you are going to be subject to some of the file locking issues

[libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive

2011-10-25 Thread Yogi
V Stuart Foote wrote: ==Posted from the Nabble Web Interface== Yogi, So reading into it, your Synology DS109 should be a Linux 2.6. based kernel. Your Windows shares are coming to you from the NAS as SMB/CIFS from a Samba 3.2.x package under Linux. So you are going to be subject to

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive

2011-10-25 Thread V Stuart Foote
Yogi, Glad you got it sorted. However, I am very concerned that it takes a System Analyst to understand why a very elementary task cannot be performed. The average LibreOffice user is only interested in having the application work... I would not say the skill set needed is average, but in

[libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive

2011-10-24 Thread ES Champ
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:20:23 -0400, Yogi bar...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm using LibreOffice 3.4.3 on a Windows 7 Ultimate machine. All my work is saved on the same hard drive as the installed copy of LibreOffice, F:\ All works well there. From time to time I manually copy the files stored

[libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive

2011-10-24 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 22/10/2011 19:20, Yogi a écrit : Hi Yogi, From time to time I manually copy the files stored on my internal drive F:\ to a network attached storage (NAS) hard drive for backup purposes. When I double click the file on the NAS drive it will not open. The right click context menu will

[libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive

2011-10-24 Thread Yogi
Do you get an error message? What is it? No error messages. After clicking on the target file the LibreOffice splash screen appears but then shuts down without ever opening the document. ES Champ wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:20:23 -0400, Yogi lt;baradj@gt; wrote: -- For

[libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive

2011-10-24 Thread Yogi
Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 22/10/2011 19:20, Yogi a écrit : Hi Yogi, Is your NAS a SMB mounted ? (probably, I think that's what most are by default). There are known issues with reading/writing to SMB shares with current versions of LibO, these are already in the bug reporting

[libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive

2011-10-24 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 24/10/11 14:04, Yogi a écrit : I'm talking about Windows here - I believe SMB shares are unique to Linux. The NAS is a Windows share and functioned perfectly under Open Office. I also have an Ubuntu virtual machine and can test it there as well, but my primary use of LibreOffice is in

[libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive

2011-10-24 Thread Yogi
SMB/CIFS more or less the same (Microsoft renamed Server Message Block protocol to Common Internet File System). The point is, does your NAS drive use the CIFS protocol to allow access to files stored on it ? Alex Yes, CIFS is one of the supported network protocols. I'm using Synology's DS109

[libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive

2011-10-24 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 24/10/11 15:10, Yogi a écrit : Yes, CIFS is one of the supported network protocols. I'm using Synology's DS109 http://www.synology.at/us/products/DS109/spec.php http://www.synology.at/us/products/DS109/spec.php Thanks, but that doesn't tell me what yours is actually running, merely

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Davies
:) --- On Mon, 24/10/11, Alexander Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alexander Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Monday, 24 October, 2011, 15:44 Le 24/10/11 15:10, Yogi

[libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive

2011-10-24 Thread Yogi
Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 24/10/11 15:10, Yogi a écrit : Thanks, but that doesn't tell me what yours is actually running, merely what it supports (quite a lot, which is pretty good). What we don't know is which network protocol the NAS is offering your Windows client - my guess would

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Davies
Tom :) --- On Mon, 24/10/11, Yogi bar...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Yogi bar...@hotmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Monday, 24 October, 2011, 20:34 Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 24/10/11 15:10, Yogi

[libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive

2011-10-24 Thread Yogi
Tom wrote: Hi :) Ahah, i was wondering what happens if you copy the files that don't work from the NAS back onto the machine you are using? Do they work when they are back on your machine? - using the NAS as back-up and storage but not for working on files actively? I don't know if

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive

2011-10-24 Thread V Stuart Foote
: [libreoffice-users] Re: Documents Not Opening On External Drive Tom wrote: Hi :) Ahah, i was wondering what happens if you copy the files that don't work from the NAS back onto the machine you are using? Do they work when they are back on your machine? - using the NAS as back-up and storage