[PLUG] CentOS 5.x/Fedora 12, Connect to Server, OOo read-only files
Roderick A. Anderson
raanders at cyber-office.net
Fri Apr 30 17:16:08 UTC 2010
Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
A quick follow up to my own post.
Looks like gvfs and gnome-vfs are not what I need. Gnome-vfs on CentOS
is *broken* in that it doesn't work with OOo when using a sftp
connection. That works OK with Fedora 12.
The biggest problem is gvfs doesn't present a non-GUI based "mount
point" (?). It is hidden down in a ~.gvfs directory. So non-Gnome (and
even some Gnome) programs can't find or get access to the directory.
I'm current re-allocating some tuits to figuring out how to get sshfs
(FUSE based) to work from Gnome. There is the afuse (auto-mount for
FUSE) package but it appears to need to be run once for each mount. A
bunch of fun if you need 15-20 connections. A play-well-with-others/
enhanceable version of gvfs would be best. (Not sure I'm up to that
level of hacking. 8-( )
So in the mean time I have created a bunch of mount points on my
desktop, open a terminal window, and mount/unmount them as needed.
\\||/
Rod
--
> I'm trying to move a bunch of files off my desktop on to a server and
> still be able to access them from my rover (eeePC 100 running Fedora 12)
> and the workstation (CentOS 5).
>
> > I have two issues with this setup. One _rather_ important (files open
> in OOo as read-only) and the other an irritation (Fedora insists on
> labeling the icon on the desktop with *everything* about the mount.)
>
> So first problem. When I do a Menu -> Connect to Server and fill in all
> the important information: Service type:SSH, Server: host.example.com,
> Folder: /home/user, Name to use for the connection: user at host I get
> connection and I've copy/cut and pasted to the mount point, dragged and
> dropped to it and subdirectories with no problems. But ... when I open
> one of the files with OOo (Calc) it opens as read-only. Permissions are
> fine. The only hick-up is the owner and group IDs that show in File
> Browser window are those on the server which is not what I have on the
> workstation or rover. But if I edit a text file with gedit I can.
>
> OOPS I forgot. The shell on the remote system is rssh not bash but this
> is not a chroot/jail setup. I suppose I'll try with bash in case there
> is an environment (~/.bashrc,~/.bash_profile) problem.
>
> Any thoughts ideas on what is going on?
>
>
> The second "irritation" I have some more testing to do. I think I found
> the solution the other day. Just not enough TUITs.
>
> \\||/
> Rod
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