[CentOS] nfs (v3?) fails to allow writes and permission changes

[JohnS]

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 06:39 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 00:42 -0400, JohnS wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 16:32 -0400, Rob Kampen wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > 
> > > So now it seems what I have is an Openoffice problem. It writes odt 
> > > files just fine via nfs but not doc files.
> > > Must be a micro$oft conspiracy.
> > > I'll take this off list as it does not appear to be a CentOS issue.
> > ---
> > /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice
> > 
> > # file locking now enabled by default
> > SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1
> > export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING
> > 
> > Comment those two lines out and try that. An alternative is to use 
> > Samba instead of NFS. I had that problem on NFS also a while ago.
> ----
> perhaps as a test but that is a bad idea for every day usage.
> 
> Craig

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Correct, but I only use that on a NFS server at home and not on
production client machines. Production client I have using samba.

John