Brian Barker wrote:
At 12:08 06/11/2008 +0100, Dieter Treichel wrote:
We are using staroffice 8 and openoffice 2 since 2006 on about 300 pc in
my school. The users are saving their data on their personal
samba-share.
Now we want to change to OO-3 and have the problem, that no user is able
to save data in his/her home-share. Cause is the new behaviour of open
office, to create a temporary file like .lockFilename.
.Filename-files are forbidden (veto file statement in the smb.conf ) for
this share.
Is there any possibility to change the standard name for the temporary
files (they should not begin with a dot) ?
Is it possible to change the path for the temporary files without
changing the path to the working directory ?
I don't know the answer to this, but I can mention another disadvantage
with the new arrangement.
If I open an OpenOffice document to read it or perhaps to copy material
from it and then close the document without making changes or saving it,
the modification date and time on the file are not changed. This is
correct. But the modification date and time on the containing folder
*are* changed, because two changes have been made to it - the creation
and then deletion of the lock file. The folder and its contents,
though, are just as they were. This is perhaps unhelpful, and could be
avoided if the lock files were saved somewhere else - perhaps in a
common location, as suggested above.
I beg to differ: I don't think that's at all unreasonable behaviour.
Even if you open a file in OOo just to read it, it is nevertheless
opened in r/w mode, and it therefore needs to be locked because the
system can't read the user's mind -- it might be helpful if there were
an open-read-only facility if this is an issue. So the date changes are
correct.
Lock files have to exist alongside the original if they're to be any use
in a networked environment - different machines may have different ideas
of the suggested "common location".
I think the OP needs to get his samba config changed - that seems to me
to be the real issue. I wasn't actually aware 'dot' files could be
prohibited under samba - and my own OOo v3 running under XP works very
happily using a samba share.
BTW 'dot' files do seem to be a general windows issue: try using R-click
and New|Text File under explorer to create a file called .xyzzy - it
won't do it ("file name needed" or some such).
--
Mike Scott Harlow Essex England.(mike -a-t- scottsonline.org.uk)
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