Open files from network on FC5

Derek C Hopkins derek.hopkins at sympatico.ca
Fri Jul 14 13:24:53 UTC 2006


At 07:34 AM 14/07/2006, you wrote:
>On 7/13/06, Anderson Alipio - Clicaí <anderson at clicai.com.br> wrote:
>>Hello all,
>>
>>  * Sorry, I forgot to mention that I am using Fedora 5 *
>>
>>I'm having a problem when I open files from network (system - remote
>>places - workgroup - computer - share...) sorry if the words are not
>>correct.
>>location bar looks like this:
>>smb://workgroup/
>>
>>I click on a computer and a share of it.
>>smb://comp/share/
>>
>>I can see the workgroups and the computers, but when I try to open a file
>>like .pdf or .doc, .xls, .... by clicking on it, the program ( eg.:
>>openoffice) starts to open, but closes whith no erros and the file dosn't
>>open.
>>when I copy the file to a local place or when I mount the share to a local
>>folder, it works.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>It was working on a older distro, fedora 4 and others...
>>I look it up on the net but no luky...
>>
>>thanks.
>>
>>Anderson Alipio
>>anderson at clicai.com.br
>>
>>
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>
>You have just discovered one of the greatest weaknesses of Gnome: VFS.
>Since gnome uses its own virtual file system, only a few applications
>are able to open files on remote computers when you click on them in
>Nautilus. If you samba share had been mounted the proper way, then
>every application could have taken advantage of it, but this is not
>the case. But I should not complain, since I do not have the time or
>talent to fix it :)
>
>--
>Trond Danielsen

Hi All

         I have a PC Windows XP Network that 
works   I have added a new computer with Fedora 
Core5  How do I go about connecting it into the 
Network the RIGHT way  I need some guidance please.

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