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

On 09/03/2014 07:15 AM, John King 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?

One thing I've noticed is the "Servers" drop down list (top right corner
of file open panel), where you can select Windows shares.  I haven't
tried it, but that may do what you want.


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