Reading Live SMB Files

Mike Klinke lsomike at futzin.com
Fri Feb 27 16:30:57 UTC 2004


On Friday 27 February 2004 09:45, Adam Voigt wrote:
> 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.
>
 
I have no problem using Konqueror this way here.

smb://blah.blah...
  Right Click <desired file>
    Open with <your program choice>


Regards,  Mike Klinke





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