viewing photos from network attached storage

[Robbo]

On 12 Mar 2006, at 00:35, BBBB wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darryl Clarke" <smartssa at gmail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 6:28 PM
> Subject: Re: viewing photos from network attached storage
>
>
>> On 11/03/06, BBBB <ubuntulist at thingbuilder.com> wrote:
>>> My photos are stored on network attached storage device. (Buffalo
>>> Terastation).
>>> I can view the photos as thumbnails in nautilus.
>>> I have tried Image Viewer, Gthumb, Foxfire and Gimp but can not open
> them
>>> without
>>> transferring them to my PC.
>>> Is there a way around this?
>>>
>>> AMD64 with 64bit Hoary.
>>
>> It depends entirely on how you are accessing them on your  
>> terastation.
>>  Is it using SMB, FTP, SFTP, or NFS?  How did you tell Nautilus about
>> this device?
>>
> When I  try to open files in Firefox, (right click thumbnail, open  
> with...),
> it tells me
> that smb is not a registered protocol, so I assume it is using SMB.

Mounting the drive (google for mounting samba) instead of using  
smb:// in nautilus.