Quoting TreeFrog TreeFrog <treefrogster at gmail.com>:
> I get an error when I browse over the network and try to open word
> documents on an NTFS disk. box is win2000 server.
> It seems like it cant write a temp file on the NTFS location so it can
> edit the file. It will open if copied locally.
Thats a permissions issue so, assuming you can mount the volume.
Try:
mount -t smbfs -o username=someuser,uid=the-uid,gid=the-gid //server/share
/local-mountpoint
> If not has another version of desktop or distro got a solution?
No, thats not the problem.
Of course, its its on your HAN, then why not do the reverse, samba server and
doze client?
Regards
Conor.
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