I get problems like this when root mounts the usb drive. When I use the usermount command (from a terminal) it brings up a a nice gui to mount my user mountable devices. When I mount them as a user, this problem goes away.
I'm using kde and Mandrake Linux 9.1 (and OOo 1.1.4).
My fstab is as in the previous post by Mhac.


Joe

Mhac Janapin wrote:

Since you mentioned root and read-write permissions, it looks like you
have Linux. This is not OpenOffice.org issue but OS issue because it
involves file writing to a device. It sure does look annoying  but you
are barking on the wrong tree, so to speak. :)

If the device is owned by root, then even though you have r-w perms on
the files, you are stuck.

Here's a workaround.
make sure your usb device is owned by root and belongs to the 'disk'
group. mine is like this
$ls -l /dev/sda2
brw-rw---- root disk 8, 2 2005-05-08 10:33 /dev/sda2

then in your /etc/fstab make sure that you have an entry similar to
this (my usb device is /dev/sda2):

/dev/sda2  /mnt/usb reiser4 noauto,user,rw 0 0


post back the results. Mhac


On 5/6/05, Dennis J. Tuchler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I loaded a paper from a usb device into OO.o Writer, changed a few things and
tried to save it.  It wouldn't save onto the usb device.  I saved it instead
on the hard drive, and from there copied it to the usb device.

The device is owned by root, but all of the documents on that device are owned
by me and have write permission.

What is the problem?  It is annoying!

dj tuchler

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