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

Hi :)
I dunno why but i think i keep mis-reading the original question.  Also i
think there are a few different issues in the question.

In all the distros i have tried you can "bookmark" folders, just as you can
bookmark web-pages in a web-browser.  However it's much easier to get to
the bookmarked folders.  In the file-browser you can have a side-panel
(it's usually the default) that shows "Places" and the bookmarked folders
appear in there.

I used to always switch that side-panel to show "tree" so that it was like
the "explorer" type view but normal users seemed to prefer the dumbed-down
"places" (in Windows) instead even though they then grumble that it gets in
the way and that it's a bit scary and confusing.  In Gnu&Linux it seems to
show useful stuff in a way that does make more sense to normal users.  So
nowadays i often keep the default "Places" view and just bookmark folders
(or un-bookmark them when they stop being useful).

When folders are files-shares on a remote machine, different desktop or
file-server or something then the bookmarks don't appear until after that
device has been mounted.  So the next trick is to edit
/etc/fstab
(is that the right place for fstab?) to automatically mount such
file-shares at boot-up.  Errr, that is the next thing i am working on for
our reception machine at work.

Regards from
Tom :)






On 3 September 2014 13:47, Franco <franco@w4u.it> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this is a well known problem affecting some releases of LibreOffice
> (4.2.x) on some versions of *ubuntu.
> You can see the files in the network shares but when you try to open them
> nothing happens.
> Same result trying to open them in the application, browsing in the "open"
> windows to the share.
> I personally verified this on Xubuntu 12.04 and Peppermint.
>
> There are some workarounds, I tryed some of them without success , other
> are a little bit hard to implement for dummies.
> You can do some googling for them.
>
> What I done was to completely remove the 4.2.x release, replacing it with
> a safe 4.02.
> Less functions, but it's working.
>
> Bye,
>
>     Franco
>
> Il 03/09/14 14.20, James Knott ha scritto:
>
>  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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