Fellows, I think you're mixing apples and oranges. Yogi's problem has nothing to do with his DHCP service and is unlikely to be a router issue.
SMB (Server Message Block) and CIFS (Common Internet Files System) are the same Microsoft controlled specifications. As a practical matter affecting LibreOffice use, what is variable is the OS hosting and the implementation of the network file system resource. CIFS is the native Windows flavor (slight differences each release from Windows NT to Windows Server 2008 R2) while SAMBA is the reverse engineered FOSS implementation of SMB/CIFS (again differences with each implementation of Server or NAS operating system). The question earlier and examples of problems Alex referenced were mostly related to file locking issues on SAMBA implementations (on multiple *nix flavors). I think there was an NFS locking issue as well. Several referenced running the SAMBA instance with the -NORBL flag (No Record Blocking) as a work around. So the question to be answered by Yogi might be: what is the OS base of your NAS--Windows (native CIFS and few issues) or a *nix hosted SAMBA? And, what release for the service/daemon? Also, for the problem data, is the partition mount set read/write in the related share configuration or smb.conf and how is the lock mechanism handled. Providing those details and perhaps other about the NAS server, coupled with details on the client experiencing access or stability issues would be more likely to provide useful response and dialog. Regards, Stuart =-=-= V Stuart Foote Systems Analyst Geological Sciences The University of Texas at San Antonio -----Original Message----- >From: Yogi [mailto:bar...@hotmail.com] >Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 5:21 PM >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Subject: [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 but not >> for working on files actively? >> >> I don't know if there is a Windows command or something that would >> identify whether you are using cifs or smb or something else. It's >> vaguely possible that by knowing the model of the router we might be able >> to find out what it's defaults are but i'm not sure i would want to state >> that sort of thing this publicly. >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> > >Tom: The files that do not open on the NAS work fine when I copy them back >to the Windows desktop. You are correct in that the NAS is simply being >used for backup, although it does have capability to do a lot more. > >I don't see a problem with an open discussion about how to find out what >protocol is being used by default. I would think that should be common >knowledge, but apparently it's not. > >-- -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
