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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >
