Tim Wescott wrote: > I'm transitioning from Windows to Linux, and I'm having a problem with > OOo and the KDE desktop on Debian. > > Konqueror will show files on networked file systems (via Samba), but it > prepends a "smb:" to the file name. So if the file I'm interested in is > alice.odp on the kramden share or ralph, then Konqueror shows it as > smb://ralph/kramden/alice.odp. > > OOo, unfortunately, doesn't like this. When I try opening a file with a > name in this format I get an error: "Nonexistent object. Nonexistent > file.". > > I can mount the file system manually, so that the file appears as > /ralph/kramden/alice.odp, in which case everything just goes swimmingly > -- but Debian is giving me fits with trying to make this automatic, and > besides, this means that every time I change the shares around on a > Windows machine I have to change things around in Debian. >
Yes, oo.o does not support kio_smb as it exists in KDE. You may find comfortable using a little KDE applet 'smb4k', which makes handling Windows samba/cifs shares for KDE user a lot more easier. ain --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
