I believe this issue has been resolved in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04) due to switching to using gvfs fuse instead of gnome-vfs/gio directly. If you still have trouble please feel free to reopen this bug and follow up with more information.
** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released -- Openoffice won't open files using sftp:// in read-only mode https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41985 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-vfs2 in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs