On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 17:02 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote: > >Hi Mark, > > > >If both users are members of the nfsshare group, and /home/nfsshare has > >it's group set to nfsshare, then both users should have write access to > >the file, as you have set read, write and execute for the group (the > >second "7"). > > > > > as I thought too... > The directory is 775 > >For the other user to be able to open the file, they need read > >permission to the file, plus read (and perhaps execute - sorry, not > >certain here) to the parent directories of the file. > > > > > this was the problem...dunno why, but, the parent dir nfsshare had 700 > as it's permissions...changing this to 775 solved it The file permissions are important as well. In order for the owner and a member of the group to edit/write a file, the file permissions must be at least 660. > >To isolate the issue to just file permissions (not OOWriter), try > >running the "file" command against the saved file as the second user, > >from a shell. > > > >Eg. $ file /home/nfsshare/file.sxw > > > >This will at least verify that the other user has read access to the > >file. > > > > > good trick that... > > >Also, if /home/nfsshare is NFS mounted, check the permissions on the > >mount, using the "mount" command. > > > > > this does get mounted by a client(s), but, this time I was accessing > from the server.. > > >Cheers, Ben > > > > > Cheers, > > Mark Sargent. >
