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

2014-09-04 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Hi, Le 03/09/2014 14:47, Franco a écrit : Hi, this is a well known problem affecting some releases of LibreOffice (4.2.x) on some versions of *ubuntu. You can see the files in the network shares but when you try to open them nothing happens. Same result trying to open them in the

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

2014-09-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It is not just Xubuntu. I have it on Kubuntu too. Franco mentioned having it on Peppermint (another Ubuntu clone and so definitely in the Debian family too). Then Mark Stanton said Fedora had the same issue. I thought Fedora was Redhat family but looking at DistroWatch it seems to be

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

2014-09-03 Thread John King
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

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

2014-09-03 Thread Tom Davies
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

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

2014-09-03 Thread James Knott
On 09/03/2014 07:15 AM, John King 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

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

2014-09-03 Thread Franco
Hi, this is a well known problem affecting some releases of LibreOffice (4.2.x) on some versions of *ubuntu. You can see the files in the network shares but when you try to open them nothing happens. Same result trying to open them in the application, browsing in the open windows to the

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

2014-09-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I dunno why but i think i keep mis-reading the original question. Also i think there are a few different issues in the question. In all the distros i have tried you can bookmark folders, just as you can bookmark web-pages in a web-browser. However it's much easier to get to the bookmarked

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

2014-09-03 Thread Mark Stanton
Same thing happens on Fedora (x86). I don't think I've ever been able to access files from a Samba share. Mark -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

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

2014-09-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Can you edit the /etc/samba/smb.conf on the server? If so does this advice look good? Does it need to be modified for different servers? http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/2406-ubuntu-share-files-and-folders-with-other-computers I've emailed my company's network guy but he has