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.
John