As a workaround I've found that bookmarking the samba share in nautilus and then selecting this bookmark from gedit's open file dialog (i.e. File->Open...(Left hand side of dialog under places)), then accessing the file seems to work the best.
--Chad On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Oliver Gerlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >From a cursory test it looks like the problem is fixed in Intrepid > (Alpha 4 LiveCD). Opening a text file on a Samba share from Nautilus > works well, no matter whether Gedit is already started or not. Opening > theses files from command line works equally well. > > That's with Gedit 2.23.3, which is said to be switched from gnomevfs to > gvfs, so it's likely that this problem has been fixed in that switch > (and new problems have likely been introduced, so heavy testing might be > useful here :) > > -- > gedit unable to open files on samba shares (7.04 Beta) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95414 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in gedit - Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome: Invalid > Status in "gedit" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: gedit > > When attempting to open a text file (via nautilus) on a samba share, gedit > displays the following error: > > Could not open file: smb://... > Unexpected Internal Error > > OpenOffice is able to open its files on the same share without problems. > > ProblemType: Bug > Architecture: i386 > Date: Sat Mar 24 07:04:19 2007 > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 > Uname: Linux twin9 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Wed Mar 21 20:55:46 UTC 2007 > i686 GNU/Linux > -- gedit unable to open files on samba shares (7.04 Beta) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95414 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
