Comment 19 for bug 267371
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| TheMOB (mob-mimc) wrote Re: Damaged OpenOffice files from samba shares | #19 |
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Hello, theMOB is me (obviously) Mark O'Brien, a director of a small engineering company that make products for the oil & gas industry. Our AVR32 based CPU board, the mimc200 is part of the linux supported hardware, and my colleagues are active participants to the linux project, so we are not very representative of the majority of users.
Within MIMC, we are happy to use 8.10, or continue with 8.04 LTS in combination with NFS, but my feeling is that the long term supported version and OpenOffice should work with SMB, as many commercial companies (and interested home users looking for alternative from Micro$oft) would want/expect this combination to work. However, I don't have to do the work, but in the interests of the open source community, it would be best to correct this.
Anyone switching over, or just doing an evaluation, is almost bound to be using samba, and will probably pick the LTS version, so if they see file corruptions at this point, the evaluation will be over, and the poor users may be forced to use Vista! However, this may be easier said than done, and I do not know what is involved.
I hope this helps. I am highly appreciative of the input from this forum
Regards, Mark O'Brien