Hi :) Ok, so i think the problem is that the file-shares are not mounted on boot-up.
Some programs will do the mounting for you but they shouldn't (imo). It's just very handy that they do. LO is being over-strict in "doing the right thing" and that is a bit of a pain, imo. I just tried editing my fstab to add in the file-shares but haven't been able to get back onto the reception machine to see if that did do the job or not. I'll have to wait until it's quieter. Regards from Tom :) On 4 September 2014 07:22, John King <[email protected]> > On 03/09/14 13:04, Tom Davies wrote: > >> >> <snip /> > >> As a temporary work-around i first set the Kubuntu machine to use >> Calligra instead of LibreOffice. >> > <snip /> > >> Sorry this hasn't helped much! :( Try searching the archives here too as >> there were some good links posted last week on a thread i started. >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >> >> > Tom > I think you may have misunderstood my original question. [added spaces] > > Using a file manager such as nautilus or dolphin and browsing to the > network, I can access any files on network windows shares, whether on > Windows machines or on a samba server. Double-clicking on the files will > open LO satisfactorily. The shares seem to get mounted by the very act of > using the file manager. I realise from looking through the archives that > some people have problems with this, but this is not my problem. > > My problem is entirely within the linux version of LO and the File-Open > dialogue. [added spaces] > > On the Windows version of LO (and MS Office for that matter), there is an > icon on the file-open dialogue called either 'network neighbourhood' or 'my > network places' that gives access to windows shares on windows or samba > machines on the network. Users can simply click on this and follow the > requisite path to access files on other machines. [added spaces] > > However, on the linux version of LO, this does not appear, so users cannot > access any files on network shares. It seems that LO (unlike eg Kate on > KDE) does not list any network places unless they have been mounted by > another application; if I use dolphin or nautilus to establish contact to > the network share and **then** use the LO File-Open dialogue, the share is > listed. I don't know whether this is a bug in LO or a deliberate policy > decision; whichever, it causes us problems and has prevented my switching > the old XP machines to Linux. > > I'm presently experimenting with the alternative file-open-save dialogues > as suggested by James Knott to see if that gets us any further. > > regards > > John > > <snip /> > -- 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
