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Bug 109133 - Hard to open files at network locations.
Hard to open files at network locations.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 44932
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: 2.4.x
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 121139 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-03-25 08:04 UTC by nos
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description nos 2003-03-25 08:04:28 UTC
Description of Problem:
Nautilus ,atleast, should be able to download
files/documents to a temp file, and open that when
the viewer can't access e.g. smb:// or ftp://
locations. 
I try access a file at or windows PDC:
"Adobe Acrobat Reader" can't open "Rj45.pdf"
because "Adobe Acrobat Reader" can't access files
at "smb" locations.  No other applications are
available to view this file.  If you copy this
file onto your computer, you may be able to open it."

Nautilus ought to download the file to a temporary
location, and let the viewing application open that.



Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open Nautilus , browse a network
location(smb,ftp or similar) 
2. Try open a document with a non URL/GnomeVFS
aware application.

Actual Results:
Tells user to manually download the file to local
computer and open it.

Expected Results:
Nautilus could easily automatically download the
file to temorary storage and let the application
use that. Much easier for the user.

How often does this happen? 
All the time.

Additional Information:
Using Nautilus 2.0.6 here, Gnome2 as shipped with
Red Hat Linux 8.0
Comment 1 Vaidotas Zemlys 2003-06-30 13:30:04 UTC
I can confirm this bug. I'm using Gnome 2.2, Debian Sid, Nautilus
version 2.2.4. This bug is not a showstopper, but forces using
smbclient, if you want to look what's inside the files in smb shares.
Comment 2 Håvard Wigtil 2004-07-20 11:56:15 UTC
*** Bug 121139 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Matthew Gatto 2004-10-20 14:20:53 UTC
Thanks for the bug report.

nautilus will never do that. These programs should add gnome-vfs support so they
can open files at many different types of locations (http/ftp/sftp/webdav/etc)
and then everything would just work.
Comment 4 Matthew Gatto 2004-10-20 14:32:03 UTC
Reopening to mark as dup of (old) bug 44932.
Comment 5 Matthew Gatto 2004-10-20 14:32:22 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44932 ***