Re: Cannot use normal save (C-x C-s) when operating over network mount

[Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>]

On Jun 11, 1:35 am, Kim Christensen <kim.christen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I've been using Emacs on and off for the past couple of years but
> recently started using it as main editor on my workstation. It took a
> while to get into, mainly because I wanted to learn elisp and had to
> get a grip of the customization possibilites before realising the
> potential of this fine piece of software :-)
>
> However, I have quite a disturbing problem when it comes to editing
> files over a SMB/CIFS network mount. When trying to save a file that I
> have opened from a mounted share, I cannot save it using basic-save-
> buffer (C-x C-s or M-x basic-save-buffer). Emacs gives me this error:
>
> basic-save-buffer-2: Opening output file: no such file or directory,
> <file path>
>
> When i try saving using write-file (C-x C-w) instead, it works just
> fine. This is very disturbing since I have to specify the file name
> each time :-)
>
> If anyone has run into this problem and could give me some pointers on
> how to start debugging it I would be grateful!
>
> I'm running the following edition of Emacs:
> GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.1) of
> 2008-09-05 on yellow, modified by Ubuntu
>
> Best regards,
> Kim Christensen

not sure what's your networking setup... is it linux to windows?

anyway, i have local network between Windows and Mac. I work in
Windows using emacsW32 (based on emacs v23). It works fine.

for example, on windows, using emacs, accessing files on my Mac, and
the file path shows this syntax:
//169.254.223.41/xah/Documents/somefile.txt

don't know if this info helps at all.

not sure what you mean by “SMB/CIFS network mount”. As far as i know,
smb/cifs is network protocol, not a network file system such as nfs,
so you don't really mount it... maybe this has nothing to do with your
problem...

  Xah
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