Hi,

I can confirm the problem with StarOffice on Linux, 
Kernel 2.2.16 with Coda Server 5.3.12 and Client 5.3.10.

(BTW, is mixing versions between client/server 
 a known snafu, or somewhat o.k. ?)

StarOffice is known to be *very* picky 
about the way it looks at its filesystems,
and there are known Problems, even with  
some combinations (knfsd vs. user space) of NFS (!).

They can be attributed to file locking,
but I don't know the very details.

So long,
Steffen