I have been doing some work from XP, with OOo (2.3) getting its files 
off drive H:, a network drive (served by samba 3.0.25a on freebsd 6.2 
as it happens). Normally, no problem.

However there's obviously an XP oddity, in that if XP hibernates and is 
woken up again, the network drives are quite often left disconnected. 
That means that drive H: (in my case) doesn't appear in any of the 
'save' menus (anywhere, not just in OOo). More annoyingly, if I then 
try to just 'save' the file I've been working on when hibernation 
occured, that save fails (some vague, general i/o error;  the exact 
wording is probably not material).  However, a 'save as' and explicitly 
giving the drive letter in the filename box 'wakes up' the network 
drive, so to speak, and it will then save successfully.

It's an irritation with a workaround, and clearly not an OOo problem as 
such; I'm surprised others haven't mentioned it (maybe not many folk 
use both network drives /and/ hibernation?????) but the problems 
another poster is having with saving to a USB stick made me wonder if 
there was a common root concerning what is essentially a removable 
drive. Just thought I'd mention it.....
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