https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119207
--- Comment #6 from Alex Thurgood <[email protected]> --- The reason it is confusing IMO is because historically, SMB shares were set up by the network administrator or sysadmin, and would be available transparently in the file system. The whole LO access to a file share dialog thing just came along and added to the confusion, and shouldn't really even be necessary. This was how it used to work. Why it was decided that we needed a separate internal dialog for Windows shares and SMB/CMIS is somewhat unclear to me. As someone who previously used OpenOffice.org 1/2 against a Samba server running on a Redhat Linux server in a business environment LAN, the system worked, but had its quirks (like occasionally writing 0 byte files from time to time). This was wayyyyy before LibreOffice ever existed, nearly 20 years ago. My point is that the dialog added a level of complexity that was in fact never needed. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
