I have been having problems opening and saving OOo files to network drives. After following some of the list members' suggestions and doing some further testing, I have found I can indeed save to a folder located on other Windows computers on the network as long as the folder is mapped as a network drive. My confusion stemmed from the fact that although I had mapped a shared folder as drive letter "S:" on my desktop machine, I was still navigating to the folder via a shortcut that I had set to the folder, a shortcut set by navigating to the folder via the network icons and therefore using the UNC path (\\WindowsServer \SomeFolder\SomeSubfolder) rather than a drive letter path (S:). As long as I use the mapped drive letter, I am ok. I still don't know why it won't work with the UNC path, but as long as it works with the drive letter, I'm happy. For those of you still interested, try this exercise:
Set up a shared folder on a Windows server and then map a drive letter to it. Open two explorer windows to the same folder- the first by using the network icons and drilling down to the folder (giving you a UNC path), and the second by double-clicking My Computer and then the drive letter mapped to the same folder. Now, on my Windows desktop,and other XP computers on the network, I can double click an OOo file on the mapped drive and it will open properly; I can save, save as, and manipulate the file as normal. If I try to open the file in the other window (with the UNC path), nothing happens. If I then open the file from within OOo using the mapped drive, everything is fine, but the file accessed with the UNC path will open, but attempting to save the file or rename it with "save as" results in the error messages previously described. I don't know if this is an OOo bug or a misconfiguration of my network. And by the way, there was no problem saving to the same folder from an Ubuntu desktop, only from Windows XP. Thanks much to all who responded! Dave W. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
