Open Office error in saving “Problem Connecting to Server” or: how not to punch Open Office in the face

So. In a burst of organizational genius the other day, we changed the default share name on a client server. Lets say the old version was ‘Public’, and the new version was ‘Shared’. What could possibly go wrong, right? Cue the hollow laugh machine.

All went fairly well, until Open Office decided that every time you opened the save dialogue box, freaked out with an error message saying it was having an error connecting to the share ‘Public’. I say ‘freaked out’ because after dismissing it, the error appeared again not once, not twice, but four hundred five thousand times. I definitely counted.

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