running openoffice over nfs [solved]

Geoff Speicher geoff at speicher.org
Wed Apr 14 18:06:56 PDT 2004


On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 04:10:55PM -0500, Geoff Speicher wrote:
> Has anyone successfully run OpenOffice over NFS?  I get the following
> error message (in an X window) when I try to run one of the openoffice-*
> (v1.0 or 1.1) applications:
> 
> 	The application cannot be started.
> 	The component manager is not available.
> 	Start the setup application to repair the installation from the
> 	CD or the folder containing the installation packages.
> 
> OpenOffice runs fine on the host machine, and the client mounts /compat,
> /usr/X11R6, and /usr/local from the host.  Am I missing something
> stupidly obvious?

Hi Geoff.  You solved this by running rpc.lockd(8) and rpc.statd(8) so
you should let everybody know in case they have the same problem.

Gosh you're a swell guy.  Humble, too.

Geoff



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