On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 14:12 +0000, Crystle Numan wrote: > Craig White <craigwhite <at> azapple.com> writes: > > > > > On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 14:03 -0500, Immanuel CRC Office wrote: > > > I am trying to open files on my Linux box from a windows share. I can > > > browse to the directory, see the files, copy them to my computer, edit > > > them, save them and copy the files back (using Nautilus). > > > > > > I can open a text file from the windows share with Gedit. > > > > > > I can not open a text file with Kate: error: The file or folder > > > smb://pastor/SHARED FILES/text.txt does not exist. > > > > > > I can not open an .xls file with OOo nor CXoffice Excel. They both open > > > a blank sheet - not the file. No error message. > > > > > > System: Ubuntu AMD64: kernel 2.6.15-27-amd64-generic Default > > > Samba: 3.0.22 > > > > > > I've searched to see what others have said, and some say it is KDE's > > > fault. Some say it is a problem with OOo. > > > > > > Does anyone have any other ideas or something to try? Do I have to get > > > this fixed by OOo and KDE? Let me know if I need to give more > > > information. Thanks for any help! > > ---- > > Logs are your friend...you might want to find them and see if they have > > any clues. > > > > Seems as though it's more of a permissions thing than a GNOME/KDE/oO > > thing. > > > > My guess is that you are mounting this share as 'root' and not as 'user' > > > > Did you want to share the appropriate method of mounting (perhaps it is > > a line in /etc/fstab)? > > > > Craig > > > > I do not have a line in /etc/fstab. I simply browse to it through my Places > menu. I do not know how Ubuntu sets that up. What file info should I post? > > I tried to find a log file, but am not sure if I was looking in the right > place. > The most recently used log in /var/log/samba was log.nmbd and I watched it as > I > tried to open a file from the Windows share. Nothing was added to it. Is there > another log file I should be watching? > > Would it be helpful to post my smb.conf? That doesn't quite make sense as it > shows what I am sharing, and that is not the issue. ---- I think I get it now...you are browsing the share with nautilus which is a GNOME program. GEdit works because it too is a GNOME program. Other programs such as Kate are KDE and don't pick up the permissions from GNOME.
Perhaps you want to use Konqueror to browse/authenticate if you want to use KDE programs but the better way is to set up a mount in the 'fstab' with 'user' authentication which would allow any GNOME, KDE or OpenOffice.org permissions - alas, I am not familiar with Ubuntu but I would suspect that there is a 'Disk / Filesystems' tool that allows 'root' to create the mount for users - thus become a universally available network share. Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
