Open Office SMB problems

[longtom]

Glad that worked so well for you! Had a few minutes on the train, so I though I'd stop in and see if that worked for you or not.

Yup, you'll need to do that for each directory on the network. If you don't want them to show up on the desktop, you can make the mount point in your home directory. For example:

mkdir /home/you/network/order_book
mkdir /home/you/network/directory2
mkdir /home/you/network/directory3
mkdir /home/you/network/directory4
etc ...

Then your mount command would look like this:

//annelize/order\040book /home/you/network/order_book  cifs  guest,rw,iocharset=utf8,nobrl,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

ps. I split these posts out into a support thread because they were off topic

And that - works like a charm.

Thank you very much - another Ubuntu battle fought and won - with a little help from my friends!

PS: Hope you have a wonderful weekend with all the flowers in full bloom. One day I'll join you for that - one day...

[longtom]

Ah - now, after a restart, the share does pop up on the desktop....that's a bit of a drawback.

Things do get cluttered now. Is there a way I can avoid this?

[dmizer]

Well, I'm back in the office now and I haven't had a chance to look at this yet. I am surprised that this is happening actually. What version of Ubuntu are you using?

[longtom]

Well, I'm back in the office now and I haven't had a chance to look at this yet. I am surprised that this is happening actually. What version of Ubuntu are you using?

Intrepid 8.10 - as it says there left in the panel right underneath my passport photo... (I know, I should use some teeth whitener....)

[dmizer]

Actually, I'm not in the habit of looking there. It was only recently that the feature was enabled. Thanks for reminding me.

Figured out how to get those directories from appearing on your desktop.

Open a terminal and type:

gconf-editor

Then go to:
apps > nautilus > desktop

Uncheck "volumes_visible"

[longtom]

Actually, I'm not in the habit of looking there. It was only recently that the feature was enabled. Thanks for reminding me.

Figured out how to get those directories from appearing on your desktop.

Open a terminal and type:

gconf-editor

Then go to:
apps > nautilus > desktop

Uncheck "volumes_visible"

Now - that is quite nifty - thank you.

The problem is (I keep running into those..), that I do have permanent shares I would like to see on my desktop...

Is there a way I can make a permanent launcher for those? I tried /media/<directory> - but that didn't do it.

[dmizer]

You can make a symbolic link from the moutpoint to your desktop

ln -s /media/<directory> /home/you/Desktop

[natxoo]

I've solved it installing gvfs-fuse package. This make openoffice use fuse, and an automagically 'copy' in /home/user/.gvfs