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

[Kim Christensen <kim.christensen@gmail.com>]

On Jun 12, 12:01 am, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...

Hi Lee,

I am actually mounting the Samba share via the cifs network protocol,
which allows me to mount it as a network file system (using "cifs" as
the vfstype argument to the "mount" application).

Are you using tramp for accessing the files? I could try that
tomorrow, without mounting it at all -- just accessing it directly.

Regards,
Kim