[wellylug] Accessing OpenOffice files across a Samba network

Colin & Josephine Lewis cjlewis at slingshot.co.nz
Thu Aug 16 21:03:53 NZST 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 18:26 +1200, Andrej wrote:
> 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)
> 
Having created a new /mnt subdirectory called laptopdocs, I ran the
mount command and got the following error message:
office:/mnt# mount -t smbfs "//fieldofficer2/My
Docuemnts" /mnt/laptopdocs
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //fieldofficer2/My
Docuemnts,
       missing codepage or other error.  In some cases useful info is
found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

What do I do/try next?

> Cheers,
> Andrej	
> 
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