a most annoying difference between Ubuntu Gnome & Kubuntu

Orjan Sinclair o.sinclair at gmail.com
Wed Jul 26 08:09:03 UTC 2006


Interesting idea! I will absolutely try that. And then report back here. Let 
me tell you that if this works a lot of people will like to know about it.

Sinclair
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 07:16, Tez wrote:
> O. Sinclair wrote:
> > Thanks for your info. I was unaware that Oo is a Gnome-app and also
> > don't quite know what Gnome VFS is but I guess it stands for Virtual
> > File System?
> >
> > I have tried all Linux smb mounting utilities there are in KDE without
> > any luck (note we are talking Windows 2003 Server here, it differs
> > from older versions) but the only thing that works is to mount using
> > "mount -t cifs..." and giving username/password. Which is fine for me
> > but not "average Joe" who wants to open a file on another share I did
> > not premount and use it...
> >
> > So I guess it still stands that for users in Windows20003 Domains - go
> > Ubuntu. Given you want to use Oo without much problems and that is a
> > main app for most Linux newcomers.
> >
> > Sinclair
>
> If I'm not too mistaken, can't you just install gnome vfs and use Oo
> will use it?
>
> Tez




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