[wellylug] Accessing OpenOffice files across a Samba network

Colin & Josephine Lewis cjlewis at slingshot.co.nz
Thu Aug 16 16:45:33 NZST 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 16:03 +1200, andrej at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> Quoting Colin & Josephine Lewis <cjlewis at slingshot.co.nz>:
> 
> > I have OOo on my Linux box which is linked to my Window's-based laptop
> > via Samba. I am wanting to be able to open and work on existing
> > documents saved on my laptop, but cannot identify an appropriate path
> > to
> > my laptop from within OOo. Currently I have to open a separate window
> > showing my laptop files and opening them in OOo from there, but would
> > prefer to do it straight from the OOo 'file open' dialogue box. 
> > 
> > Anybody have any ideas on how to set this up?
> How are you accessing them in the first place from your
> separate window?  What path do you see in that window when
> you do pwd?
> 
I have a link on my Linux desktop to the 'My Documents' directory on my
laptop which I open in a separate window under linux, and then double
click the particular file icon I want to open and it opens in OOo.  The
link that this window points to is "smb://fieldofficer2/My Documents".

> 
> > Colin
> Cheers,
> Andrej
> 
> 




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