[SWLUG] Ubuntu / Open Office 2.4 / XP Pro

[Tony Pursell]

Hi Stephen,

On 30 Jul 2008 at 16:13, Stephen Constantinou wrote:

> Dear All
> 
> I have a network of two computers behind a Smoothwall firewall.  One is
> an ethernet connection to a switch the other is a wireless connection to
> a wireless/4 port router set up as an access point connected to the switch.
> 
> The ethernet computer is an XP and the wireless connection is a Ubuntu
> 8.1 laptop that I have recently installed a load of updates for.  136 in
> fact.
> 
> I like to sit downstairs and open and work on files on the upstairs
> computer by using Konqueror to locate the file (Network folders > Samba
> Shares > Mdkgroup > then browse to the file) and click it.  The file is
> opened in OpenOffice and I can save it as I go along.
> 
> Since this update of packages, I am not able to do his.  After I click
> the file the OO splash screen starts but does not continue to open OO
> or the file.  No application opens and no error messages occur.
> 
> I have tried looking through the installed packages but I cannot
> identify any one package that might have done this.
> 
> I looked at System Settings > Sharing > File Sharing which is set to
> Simple Sharing.
> 
> I can use Konqueror to copy a file from Ubuntu to XP.
> I cannot save a new file onto the XP machine from Ubuntu.  I get an
> error message: "Error saving document Untitled1: non-existent object.
> Path to the file does not exist"
> To be complete I turned off the firewall (part of kaspersky) on the XP
> as well.  In addition I have completely uninstalled Kaspersky and tried
> again with the same result.
> 
> I am at a loss to know what I did and what I can do to solve it.
> 
> Any help appreciated
> 
> Stephen
> 

I have been looking for some answers since I saw your post because I 
have problems seeing XP shares from Ubuntu as well.  So for now I 
only have some questions and no answers.

First, are both the XP machine and the Ubuntu laptop on the same 
subnet?

Have you told the Kaspersky firewall on the XP machine to 'trust' the 
local subnet?

If you have got a Kaspersky firewall running, have you disabled the 
Windows XP firewall? 

When you updated Ubuntu, did you have a message asking you if it 
could update your smb.conf file with a new one? (I'm fairly sure the 
7.10 > 8.04 upgrade does).

Did you install 8.04 from scratch or did you upgrade from 7.10 (or 
even 6.06)?

I did get through to my wife's XP laptop last night after a small change 
to the smb.conf, but it may have been a fluke because I could not see 
it this morning.  I need to do some experiments to prove if the 
smb.conf change actual was beneficial.

Enough for now.  Let me know how you get on.

Tony