samba server and Openoffice
 

Hello,

I am using redhat linux 9.0 and i want to work on excel file lying in windows machine without copying it to linux machine as we are doing it in windows network neighbourhood.
I am using samba service to browser the network it is showing the .xls, .doc file of windows machine but when i try to open it gives the error message as below
("StarOffice" can't open "task.xls" because "StarOffice" can't access files at "smb" locations. No other applications are available to view this file. If you copy this file onto your computer, you may be able to open it.)
Can any one help me.

sachin

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What happens if you try mounting the share, rather than just browsing it? You can do this by typing:

mount -t smbfs //machinenameoripadress/sharedfolder /mnt/samba (or whatever directory you make to mount it on.)

Give that a try, and see what happens.

It has to do with gnome-vfs support. Gnome-VFS is a library that allows applications to transparently access various types of filesystems. At the moment very few applications support it. If you take a look at:

/usr/share/application-registry/gnome-vfs.applications

you can find supported applications by searching for the ones with uses_gnomevfs=true. Unfortunately, staroffice/openoffice doesn't seem to be one of them.