Reading Live SMB Files

[Adam Voigt]

I'm glad it works for you, but it's not working for me no matter which
server software I'm connecting to. I've tried connecting to both a Samba
Server and a Windows 2000 Server, neither will let me open PDF's without
either mounting the share or copying the file to the HD.

On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 08:51, Luc Bouchard wrote:
> I have just done a quick test and other than asking for credentials I
> was able to open a pdf document straight from the SMB share in Nautilus
> without mounting the share.
> 
> Possibly a Samba configuration issue?  I do have a Samba PDC used to
> authenticate users on 2 Windows machines and Samba on my Linux
> workstation publishing a backup share and a data share.
> 
> YMMV
> 
> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 10:45, 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.
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Adam Voigt
> > adam at kotisprop.com
> > 
> > 
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Adam Voigt
adam at kotisprop.com