Reading Live SMB Files

[Douglas Furlong]

Sorry for top posting, but for this part, it seems to be more
appropriate.

I was always under the impression, the reason why most applications will
not open some thing directly from the GNOME smb network browser was due
to it being another abstraction layer that most applications are unaware
of.
When dealing with normal users I actually find it a hindrance that this
is here at all, as users automatically assume they can use it as they
would in windows. I have found this to be very far from reality.
It is a pity that fedora does not ship any thing out of the box that
will allow us as users to just go to a network share and browse it as if
it was local.

Till that happens I am left with mounting them using pam_mount or
similar till a better solution comes to light.

I really do dislike the additional abstraction layer that's being used,
and the split between KDE and GNOME on this :(

Doug

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 14:56, Adam Voigt wrote:
> 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
> > > 
> > > 
> -- 
> 
> Adam Voigt
> adam at kotisprop.com
> 
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