[wellylug] Accessing OpenOffice files across a Samba network

[Andrej]

On Thursday 16 August 2007 16:45, Colin & Josephine Lewis wrote:
> 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".
I assume that's a feat of whatever desktop you're using?
You may want to try and mount the device to a local directory:
e.g. 
assuming you're root
mkdir /mnt/documents
mount -t smbfs "//fieldofficer2/My Docuemnts" /mnt/documents
(mind you, I never tried for a share with a space in the name)

Cheers,
Andrej	

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