Comment 69 for bug 34813

I think there are two different bugs overlapping in this ticket.
Over sshfs, gedit and anjuta (on gutsy and hardy), fail to save and display a message with something like 'You cannot save ...'. The problem and the message go away if the remote filesystem is mounted with sshfs -o uid=$UID. This seems to indicate that gedit and anjuta are checking the owner and permission bits of the file before trying to write instead of actually trying to save the file.
The issue on smbfs with file modified times might be a different issue altogether.