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

On 03/09/14 13:04, Tom Davies wrote:
> 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 :)

Tom
I think you may have misunderstood my original question. Using a file 
manager such as nautilus or dolphin and browsing to the network, I can 
access any files on network windows shares, whether on Windows machines 
or on a samba server. Double-clicking on the files will open LO 
satisfactorily. The shares seem to get mounted by the very act of using 
the file manager. I realise from looking through the archives that some 
people have problems with this, but this is not my problem.

My problem is entirely within the linux version of LO and the File-Open 
dialogue. On the Windows version of LO (and MS Office for that matter), 
there is an icon on the file-open dialogue called either 'network 
neighbourhood' or 'my network places' that gives access to windows 
shares on windows or samba machines on the network. Users can simply 
click on this and follow the requisite path to access files on other 
machines. However, on the linux version of LO, this does not appear, so 
users cannot access any files on network shares. It seems that LO 
(unlike eg Kate on KDE) does not list any network places unless they 
have been mounted by another application; if I use dolphin or nautilus 
to establish contact to the network share and **then** use the LO 
File-Open dialogue, the share is listed.  I don't know whether this is a 
bug in LO or a deliberate policy decision; whichever, it causes us 
problems and has prevented my switching the old XP machines to Linux.

I'm presently experimenting with the alternative file-open-save 
dialogues as suggested by James Knott to see if that gets us any further.

regards

John

> 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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