Resolved: [PLUG] Accessing files on a local network

[Russ Johnson]

Richard C. Steffens wrote:

>On Sunday 26 June 2005 5:10 pm, Russ Johnson wrote:
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>>The network transport should be transparent to OO. You need to mount the
>>share prior to trying to open the file, but that's pretty much
>>universal. You'd have to mount an NFS share before opening the file
>>there as well.
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>SuSE 9.1 provides desktop icons to start instances of Konqueror for local 
>system browsing (called My Computer) and for "Network Browsing." Using 
>Network browsing, I navigate to the directory containing the files on the RH 
>machine. I assume that this mounts that system on the SuSE machine, but OO 
>still does not see the network.
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Probably not. This would be the same as browsing the samba shares from a 
Windows machine with the //machine/path/to/files path.

I'm not sure about OO, but many Linux apps do not support opening files 
this way. I recall a thread on here a few weeks back regarding K3b and 
opening an ISO. It didn't support file:/path/to/file conventions, and 
aborted on that user.

You'll probably have to issue a smbmount or mount -t smb command to 
mount the share on a mountpoint prior to trying to open the file.

>Clicking on the entry of the .doc file results in a dialog box 
>offering to open the file with OO writer. For some reason, it worked this 
>time. I guess I must not have followed that procedure the same way the last 
>time.
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That's a good sign. Maybe OO does support opening files via URI.

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