Comment 25 for bug 229839

I just tried booting into Windows XP on my main computer, and opened an OO file that's located on my laptop (that's running Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex): I was able to save normally. So at least for me, it looks like the problem is gone now in Windows XP. (I used OO version 2.4, as that's what I still have for now in Windows.)

When I try opening an OO file on my laptop that's located on my main computer, I get the same error message when trying to save it, regardless of whether the host computer is running Win XP or Ubuntu Hardy Heron: "Error saving the document [filename]: Nonexistent file." That's followed by a second error message, "Error saving the document [filename]: General error. General input/output error."

I looked at the OpenOffice bug reports at the link you (Chris) gave. There seem to be quite a few bug reports of this problem of not being able to save files over a network, starting from June 2002 with StarOffice, continuing up to November 2008 in OpenOffice 3.0. That last bug, #95767, was solved by setting up the network to allow lock files to be saved. (I tried creating a file over the network with the name .~lock.myfilename# and it worked fine.) These various bug reports refer to Windows and Macintosh; none of them mention any problems on Linux.