27 Feb
2004
27 Feb
'04
9:45 a.m.
It had never bothered me before, but I was opening a PDF document for someone off the file server and it told me that "xpdf" couldn't read the file off SMB shares, so I had to copy it to my desktop to open it. Someone watching me do this asked why I had to, and I didn't really have a reason, so I thought I'd ask here.
Why is it exactly you can't directly open files off SMB shares like you can on Windows? I'm sure it's probably something simple like Nautilus just uses "smbclient" instead of mounting the share or something like that, but why couldn't it just copy the file to /tmp when you try and access it, to make it more fluid browsing?
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Adam Voigt
adam@kotisprop.com