Hi,

I have the following problem: Slackware 12.2, openoffice 3.0.1. When I want to save a file from openoffice to mounted cifs directory I get the following error:
Error saving the document. Object is not accessible. The object can not be accessed due to insufficient user rights.

But I can write to this directory for example with copy, that is no problem.

My mounting command is:
mount -tcifs -ocredentials=/root/.creds,uid=szaboa,nobrl,rw //router/szaboa/privat/munka2 /home/szaboa/diatech/munka2

What is the problem?

Thank you for the help.

It sounds like openoffice can't write. Go figure out it's permissions. check the binaries. If some things are started as root they drop to user nobody

I have checked the permissions of the binaries: scalc, swriter, soffice and soffice.bin. All have the permissions 755, the owner is root. What should be they? Or which files must I look more for?

Does it change if you add "umask=0000" to the mount options?

No change, the problem ist hold.

I did a quick test with OpenOffice 3.0.1 Build:9379 Writer, and it works just fine.

My fstab has this for the share
//server/folder & /mnt/folder are truncated in the above code sample. /mnt/folder is chown'd to keith:user, keith is a user on the server.

You can try adding/changing some options on the samba server, create mask =, directory mask =, inherit permissions = Yes, inherit owner = Yes, force user=.

Thanks, my code is:

mount -tcifs -ocredentials=/root/.creds,uid=szaboa,nobrl,rw //router/szaboa/privat/munka2 /home/szaboa/diatech/munka2

where the /home/szaboa/diatech/munka2 chown'd to szaboa:users and the user szaboa is a user on the server. I can check/change the samba options on the server but on Monday.

My OpenOffice version is: OOP 3.0.0 build 9358.

What does pstree -u show? Who is running openoffice?

Of course me, szaboa.

Try chmodding your mount place for 777 temporarily. uid should be numeric value, shouldn't it?

I chmodded for 777 the mount place but no change. I don't understand the second item, uid, what does it mean here?

But I must add some more informations to the problem: I have Debian also on this machine, I mount under Debian with the same command and there is no such problem, I can save to the mounted directories with Openoffice, the Openoffice on Debian has also the same versionnumber as on Slackware.

uid - user identifier (numeric value)

man mount:
If it works in debian, are samba versions the same in both distros?

And to get it:

as user szaboa: "echo $UID", or you can use for example 'grep szaboa /etc/passwd | cut -d ":" -f 3' (the uid is the third field in file /etc/passwd).

It will be most probably 1000, because that's the default value that "adduser" command will give for the first normal user added to your system.

But according to the man mount.cifs:
Excerpt from "man mount.cifs":

"uid=arg
sets the uid that will own all files on the
mounted filesystem. It may be specified
as either a username or a numeric uid.
This parameter is ignored when the target
server supports the CIFS Unix extensions."

Not only uid-number it can be username also.


The samba versions:
Slackware 3.2.5
Debian 3.2.4

And yet anything: I can't save only from Openoffice, from another applications no problem, I can copy to the mounted directories any files without problems.

Then the problem is definitely with OpenOffice.org. Since this isn't included with Slackware, you had to have gotten it elsewhere. It's possible you got a bad build or something. Grab the latest build script from www.slackbuilds.org and try that. Let us know if that fixes the problem, or if it persists.