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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > -- Adam Voigt adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
