On my SuSE KDE system I set up Samba to see my PC. Now via the "Network Browsing" icon on my desktop I can see my Windows network and access files on my PC. This is good.

But when I'm in Open Office and I save a file that I opened on the PC via Samba it saves it in a local /var/tmp... directory. I can't do a "Save As" onto the PC's drive because the pathname for the Samba files are "smb://<pc name>... - in other words the PC's files are not seen as part of the Linux PC's file system.

If I want to put the saved file on the PC I have to do a Copy from the /var directory and a Paste in the Samba directory I see via the "Network Browsing" icon.

Is there a way to make the PC's directory look like part of the Linux file system so I can do a Save As directly from the application?

Thanks in advance.



BTW, so far I'm VERY happy with Open Office's ability to read and write the Microsoft Word data format!

Gosh, somebody is going to have to jump in here for me, but I think you can mount a windows drive as a sama share so that it appears as /mnt/windows. I've done it in the past but a loong time ago. Maybe through smbfs?

try mount -t -o username=foo //path/to/share /mnt/windows