-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2008-06-30 at 09:50 +0100, G T Smith wrote:
Its to bad that OO doesn't handle this kind of thing more gracefully. The XLS file I work with contains a lot of hyperlinks to other XLS files on the smb share. Will OO access these shares through the mount I created or will it just spawn a new smb:// link?
Yes.. if the links are specified as links in the file space rather than on the network. (Opening multiple network connections seems to be a rather inefficient way of handling this anyway).
There is a problem here. If the file is used by several people on a room, it makes more sense references like smb://link instead of /filesystemfile because it will be the same on all computers, be them linux or windows.
I have into problems with open office in the past due differences in the path specification in between Windows and Linux. If a path specification get embedded in a document written on one OS reading it on the other OS may be problematic. IIRC smb://link: is not a legitimate way of grabbing Windows network resources from Windows machines anyway (a bit specific to samba and *NIX), UNC being the standard route on Windows and would create some confusion for Windows users. Unless OO can translate smb: into a UNC path on a Windows machine one may have a problem with this. But it is a long time since I last used Windows so I could be wrong. However, I would suggest having such a mixed client environment this would only be the start of the support issues. Windows client does not play nicely with Linux clients at the best of times.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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