Reading Live SMB Files
Peter Eddy
petere at atg.com
Fri Feb 27 20:36:48 UTC 2004
Christopher Ness wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Some good solutions came out of this thread, but I also wonder why
> Nautilus cannot simply open files through smb://
>
> I would expect it to be able to do this. Even if it is only downloading
> the file to /tmp and opening it locally for the user as mentioned by
> Adam. Seems like simple HCI to me. 1 click is better than 5.
I don't know nautilus, but I don't think I'd want it to be downloading a
file to /tmp, since I think it'd be easy for the user to miss this fact
and believe they were modifying the original file.
I do agree with you in general though, it should be easy to do this.
Peter
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