Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice on Linux does not see network shares

Hi :)
I am having the same problems on some machines (well, 1 Kubuntu machine)
but not on others (Ubuntu or Windows).  There is an intermittent bug to do
with this so it would be great if you and i could do straces and add them
to the existing bug-reports.

As a temporary work-around i first set the Kubuntu machine to use Calligra
instead of LibreOffice.  Now i'm trying to edit the;
/etc/samba/smb.conf
(after creating a copy/backup of it) on the server but so far i've not had
any luck with that.  Other people tried different versions of LibreOffice.
What mystifies me is that on all the Ubuntu machines i double-click on any
file anywhere on the network or on a client/local desktop and LibreOffice
has no problems.  Calligra does have nice features but i just don't like it
as much as LibreOffice.  So i am kinda hoping the bug gets fixed or that i
stumble onto whatever the settings are that makes LO work on Ubuntu.

Sorry this hasn't helped much! :(  Try searching the archives here too as
there were some good links posted last week on a thread i started.
Regards from
Tom :)







On 3 September 2014 12:15, John King <johnmking_uk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> LO 4.2 and 4.3 series on Opensuse 13.1 and Xubuntu 12.04
>
> I am presently attempting to move some users from XP to Linux on our
> peer-to-peer network, but have hit a problem with Libreoffice and access to
> files on other networked machines.
>
> When using LO on Windows XP, the file-open dialogue shows a 'Network
> places' icon and users can access files on other machines without a
> problem. I am trying to ensure that they get an equivalent experience when
> using LO on Linux.
>
> However, the file-open dialogues of LO on the different Linux
> distributions I've tried do not show network shares on either Windows
> machines or Linux machines running Samba, and so users do not have the same
> experience that they have been used to on Windows XP. If I use the Kate
> text editor, which does provide a network icon in the file-open dialogue,
> there's no problem accessing files on the same shares.
>
> I know that if we access the files on the network shares using
> dolphin/nautilus, then subsequently that network location appears in the LO
> file-open dialogue. However, I'd rather not require our users to do that
> before they can use the wordprocessing facilities; I simply want the same
> file-open dialogue on Linux LO that they had on Windows XP LO and MS Office.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> John King
>
>
>
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