please excuse my stupid questiones, but "ich stehe auf dem Schlauch" as we Germans say. Means I dont understand your detaild description. So: vitamin wrote: > 1. Right click on the link - properties. in which program? Or do you mean the path of the .doc file? I've no problem with writing out of ubuntu directly if this helps. vitamin wrote: > 5. Copy the command The command prompted in the terminal, I guess vitamin wrote: > 8. Do whatever you doing to reproduce the problem You mean trying to save in word to the ntfs folder? Thanks.