[SOLVED] Shared Documents on WLAN

[davec51]

I have a wired network connected to a Windows XP machine, which contains all my documents. When I open LibreOffice, I can't find the shared files, though I'm connected to the server. With my file manager open, I can find the file, but when I click on it, LibreOffice just begins to open, and then disappears.
I have disconnected my firewall, but that doesn't seem to be the problem.
Any help will be appreciated.

[GermanTux]

Hi David;

I am afraid with that info you posted there is little I can come up with.   

Can you copy the document from the xp share to your machine?

Can you do the opposite? 

Those two questions should start to break down the issue. 

[muungwana]

kde has technologies called "kio slaves". They seek to make a few things better but they also make a few new ones worse. You seem to be hitting on the worse one.

libreoffice( like most non kde applications) do not understand kde specific technologies(like "smb://"  kio slave) and that is where the problem is.

Use a program called "smb4k" to mount remote shares on your local file system and then browse through the remove shares though that local mount point.

Always do this and you will get a consistent behavior and it will always work because all applications will access those remote shares as if they are on your local file system.

[davec51]

Muungwana,
Thanks very much for your help. I couldn't use smb4k on my present installation because I didn't have the kde desktop. I installed the kde version of PCLOS and reinstalled smb4k (somehow the native one didn't work). Now with smb4k I have perfect read/write access to all my documents.

[davec51]

German Tux,
Thanks to you, too, for your help. I could indeed copy and move documents between the two machines. What was lacking apparently was the right connection with LibreOffice. Now I have the problem solved, as my post above explains.