[ale] OO unable to create file on a samba server

[Greg Freemyer]

Thanks all.

Yes I was just accessing it as smb://...

Should have thought about mounting it, but for reads it was working so
well I did not think about it.

Greg

On 8/17/07, Bj?rn Gustafsson <bg-ale at bjorng.net> wrote:
> On 8/17/07, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > The gui newbie again.  I have a samba based fileserver that everyone
> > in the company uses.
> >
> > I just tried to use calc to create file on there.  It says smb
> > protocol is not supported for writing files.
>
> Are you by chance trying to save a file to smb://host/share/filename?
> That's the only way that complaint would make sense to me.  If so,
> that's not really the ideal approach.
>
> Normally you'd mount a samba share on your machine much like any other
> remote filesystem, i.e. by putting an entry into /etc/fstab or your
> automounter.  Then your application won't have any idea that it's
> saving anywhere special.
>
> --
> Bj?rn Gustafsson
>


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