Reading Live SMB Files

[Peter Eddy]

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