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 on Windows XP, the file-open dialogue shows a 'Network > places' icon and users can access files on other machines without a > problem. I am trying to ensure that they get an equivalent experience > when using LO on Linux. > > However, the file-open dialogues of LO on the different Linux > distributions I've tried do not show network shares on either Windows > machines or Linux machines running Samba, and so users do not have the > same experience that they have been used to on Windows XP. If I use > the Kate text editor, which does provide a network icon in the > file-open dialogue, there's no problem accessing files on the same > shares. > > I know that if we access the files on the network shares using > dolphin/nautilus, then subsequently that network location appears in > the LO file-open dialogue. However, I'd rather not require our users > to do that before they can use the wordprocessing facilities; I simply > want the same file-open dialogue on Linux LO that they had on Windows > XP LO and MS Office. > > Is this possible?
One thing I've noticed is the "Servers" drop down list (top right corner of file open panel), where you can select Windows shares. I haven't tried it, but that may do what you want. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
