Reading Live SMB Files

[Dean Mumby]

I have also tried unsuccessfully to use this great ap , from what I have 
seen it seems that for some reason it is unable to resolve the ip 
address of the samba server / workstation , if you check the command 
that gets issued you will see that it has an empty ip= field , removing 
this field or inserting the ip and the command works , hopefully someone 
with some knowledge will pick this up and fix it .

Dean


Paul M. Bucalo wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 10:45, Adam Voigt wrote:
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>>It had never bothered me before, but I was opening a PDF document for
>>someone off the file server and it told me that "xpdf" couldn't read the
>>file off SMB shares, so I had to copy it to my desktop to open it.
>>Someone watching me do this asked why I had to, and I didn't really have
>>a reason, so I thought I'd ask here.
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>>Why is it exactly you can't directly open files off SMB shares like you
>>can on Windows? I'm sure it's probably something simple like Nautilus
>>just uses "smbclient" instead of mounting the share or something like
>>that, but why couldn't it just copy the file to /tmp when you try and
>>access it, to make it more fluid browsing?
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>>Adam Voigt
>>adam at kotisprop.com
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>There is a program that would have made this very user-friendly for you
>and your supported staff, but I am not sure that it will work with
>Fedora. The program is called LinNeighborhood. Mandrake users would be
>familiar with it as it was provided on the 9.1 release and has been
>available to them, and RH users, for some time. My recent attempt to get
>it to work wasn't successful, and the developer has since abandoned the
>app, thinking that with Nautilus and Konqueror having the ability to
>open shares, it isn't necessary. I beg to differ. It's a wonderful
>program for end-users who need access to share with a more Windows-like
>approach. Do a search on the name and see what you can find. I believe
>Joe Klemmer has the Fedora-specific RPM's for it, but again, neither his
>or the RH 9 version worked on my Fedora installation. If you get it and
>it works, please let me know how, here or off-list. 
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>Good luck with this..
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>Paul
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