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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx There is a program that would have made this very user-friendly for you and your supported staff, but I am not sure that it will work with Fedora. The program is called LinNeighborhood. Mandrake users would be familiar with it as it was provided on the 9.1 release and has been available to them, and RH users, for some time. My recent attempt to get it to work wasn't successful, and the developer has since abandoned the app, thinking that with Nautilus and Konqueror having the ability to open shares, it isn't necessary. I beg to differ. It's a wonderful program for end-users who need access to share with a more Windows-like approach. Do a search on the name and see what you can find. I believe Joe Klemmer has the Fedora-specific RPM's for it, but again, neither his or the RH 9 version worked on my Fedora installation. If you get it and it works, please let me know how, here or off-list. Good luck with this.. Paul
