Re: problem opening files from SMB share

[Narayana Pattipati <narayana pattipati wipro com>]

Hi,

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 20:05, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> Hello all,
>     I'm running Nautilus 2.8.2 on a debian sid box,
Many fixes went into latest gnome-vfs smb code. Suggested to use the latest sources from CVS HEAD. 

>  and I figured out
> eventually that rather than using "Connect to Server...", I still have
> to type in smb:///user/:/password/@/servername/sharename/ /manually to
> make it work properly (entering the username in the dialogue box of
> "Connect To Server..." doesn't seem to work - any ideas why?).
This is still an open issue. Please refer to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172695

>     However, the problem I'm still having is that, I guess because it's
> not actually mounted, OpenOffice and various other programs won't open
> files directly from the share - they say it doesn't exist (for
> instance:Could not open
> '/home/josiah/jdmusic/smb://nsuser:nsuser carbon/NSPublic/wholerange.jpg'
> for reading: No such file or directory).
Yes, thats true. If applications depend on gnome-vfs and support uris (like eog, gedit), they can open samba shared files. Rest of applications can't open them. Way to go is, to copy the files locally and open. 

Regards,
Narayana