I am sure this is not a proper way to fix it but I don't know enough about gedit to trace this all the way. From what I can tell though the error spawns in gedit-local-document-saver.c and it doesn't occur in vi:
if (lsaver->priv->doc_mtime > 0 && statbuf.st_mtime != lsaver->priv->doc_mtime && ((saver->flags & GEDIT_DOCUMENT_SAVE_IGNORE_MTIME) == 0)) { g_set_error (&lsaver->priv->error, GEDIT_DOCUMENT_ERROR, GEDIT_DOCUMENT_ERROR_EXTERNALLY_MODIFIED, "Externally modified"); goto out; } I've tried setting ahead and behind times on both server but I still keep getting the error. Finally I commented out the entire if statement and rebuild gedit. Works fine now but I am definitely missing out on time stamp changes. Right now it's so frustrating though and I love the editor so until gedit team has an official fix this will do. -- gedit fails to save files over smbfs/cifs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/34813 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs