On 12/12/2007 12:43 AM, Atanas Atanasov wrote: > Hello, > > I am helping a small company to migrate from MS Office (Windows) to > OpenOffice.org (GNU/Linux). One of the biggest problems I came across is the > missing native support for smb shares. Although I could mount the smb server > share to a local directory, this resolves the problem only partially - > sometimes users open files from another person's Windows PC, and it's > nonsence to mount all Windows PCs locally. The user simply wants to be able > to browse the network and open and edit files seamlessly. > > I consider this to be a major drawback that hampers the Windows to > GNU/Linux > migration. Is full SMB support planned anytime soon? IMHO this should not be > a big problem as there are plenty of FOSS applications with SMB support - I > mean it is something that is already implemented elswere. >
I use Samba between linux and windows machines all the time & seldom have any problem doing so. Hint, you can browse your samba shares from OOo to open a file by: Tools|Options|OpenOffice.org|General|Open/Save dialogs| un-tick "Use OpenOffice.org dialogs". But yes, you'll need to have the shares mounted first - that's common on any samba system. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
