On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 16:31 +1000, Adrian Try wrote: > Hi David > > > I am new to this list and to Open Office, so please forgive me if this > > has been answered before. I manage a small network with mixed Windows > > and Linux machines. I have begun experimenting with Open Office in the > > hope that I can migrate all the machines away from Microsoft Office. > > I'm doing similar experiments in my workplace. So far they are going > very well! My work network consists of a bunch of Windows XP machines > running different versions of Microsoft Office, plus one Windows XP > computer running OpenOffice 2.0.2.
> > > > The problem I am having is that I cannot save any Open Office document > > to a shared Windows network folder on our Windows 2003 server. If I > > try, I get an error dialog saying something like "the document cannot be > > saved because it does not exist." "Save as" does not work either. The > > only way I can store OO documents on the server is to first save them on > > the local drive and then copy them to the server. The shared folder on > > the server allows all users to create, modify, and delete files, and I > > have no problem doing so using MS Office or any other program. This > > problem has occurred on both of the Windows XP computers I have > > attempted to use. > > I'm not experiencing the same thing here. I can open and save Word and > Excel documents on the network, both through Network Neighbourhood and > on mapped network drives. No error message is displayed. > Excellent news. Then there must be something about my network that OO doesn't like. We started with just a few machines on a peer to peer Windows network, and have added machines as the business has grown. Currently, we have two workgroups, "office" and "schoffice" to separate our accounting computers from the desktops the rest of us use. There are 4 computers plus the server on the "schoffice" accounting workgroup. There are 5 Windows Xp Pro desktops, an occasional Windows laptop, and 3 Linux desktops on "office". Each computer can see the shared folders on the server, and can copy, read, and write files there with no problem (except for OO). The Windows 2003 server is backed up nightly, so it is convenient for the desktop users to store their files there. I have mapped the shared folder on the server to the "S:" drive on my desktop. I can work in any program other than OO and save documents to "S:" If I start a new document and try to save to the shared folder on the server (naming it "Test"), I get "Error saving the document Untitled1: \ \<path to file>\Test.odt does not exist." When I click ok in the dialog, I get "Error saving the document Untitled1: General Error General input/output error." If I try "save as", I get the same errors. If I save the file to my local drive and then copy it to the server, nothing happens when I double click on the file or if I right click on the file as try to "open with OpenOffice." If I right click on the OO quickstarter icon in the system tray, click "open document", and then navigate to the file, it will open, but I cannot save any changes to the file or save as another file. > ><snip> > > Fortunately(?), I had some serious problems with my work Windows > computer after we moved to a new office. I guess that someone dropped > it in the move. > > During the couple of weeks before I got a new work computer, I used my > own laptop computer in its place, running both PCLinuxOS and Suse > 10.1. I didn't experience any problems during that time. Everything - > in terms of documents, networking and printing - worked perfectly. > Opening and saving documents worked smoother if I mounted the samba > shares. It was a very successful exeriment. > I'm not sure why your experience is different. It may be that your > network is set up differently, or perhaps you are saving the documents > differently somehow. I'm happy to follow it up with you (on list) and > do some experiments on my side if that will help. > > Adrian > Interestingly enough, I just tried the same exercise noted above, but this time from the Ubuntu 6.06 desktop with the server folder connected through Samba. No problems opening, saving, or saving as. It appears that OO likes Linux better than Windows (so do I). All of the Windows machines experience the same problem. This is frustrating, because I would like all our users to experience Open Office, but my network is not cooperating. I am not a network guru by any means, but it appears to be working fine otherwise. Any thoughts? Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
