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

Tue Jul 14 04:42:58 UTC 2009
JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com>

On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 16:32 -0400, Rob Kampen wrote:
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> 
> 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.
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/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