saving files on the network

saving files on the network

Rabin Yasharzadehe rabin at rabin.io
Tue Dec 28 01:25:54 IST 2021


Do you have this problem when accessing the files when the share is mounted
using simply the mount command ?
> mount -t cifs //pi/public /mnt

I know I had this problem, when Gnome/Mate mounted the shares via fuse or
gvfs which not all applications know how to work with.

--
Rabin


On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 at 18:02, Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have a shared disk on my Raspberry Pi accessed on my several
> computers as PI-PUBLIC. I access the drive using smb:// or fish://
> or directly from the /mnt defined in /etc/fstab and can read, write,
> delete files from KDE programs - for example Kwrite, Okular, etc.
>
> I have 2 related(??) problems saving files to the share from a non-KDE
> program.
>
> Problem #1
> In LibreOffice (for example) , I get:
> "Error saving the document Untitled 1: Object not accessible. The
> object cannot be accessed due to insufficient user rights."
>
> But I DO have user rights since KDE programs DO work.
>
> Some programs don't even "warn" that the file has not been saved.
>
>
>
> Problem #2
> If I save to (for example) the Desktop, I can then drag-and-drop the
> file to the network drive, but if I later open it and want to make
> changes, when I try to save, I get a message box saying:
> "The file smb://solomon@pi/PI-PUBLIC/Documents/tst.odt has been
> modified. Do you want to upload the changes?"
> If I click un the "Upload" button, the change IS saved, but the extra
> step (and the fact that I cannot save a new document to the drive) are
> driving me crazy.
>
> I read somewhere that this is a known problem when using non-KDE
> programs in KDE Plasma - something to do with the kioslave, but have
> not found a solution.
>
> Any way to get around this?
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Shlomo Solomon
> http://the-solomons.net
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