GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 662790
Make location bar aware of windows share path (replace \ by / and add smb:// prefix)
Last modified: 2012-09-05 00:54:27 UTC
in a company there are commonly majority using windows; while minority like me I'm using Ubuntu Linux with Gnome Desktop; when colleagues are sharing some files, they are always posting the path like this: \\machine-name\path1\path2\path3\... Even though under Linux I could open it in nautilus with this translated path: smb://machine-name/path1/path2/path3/... but to manually translate these '\' to '/' is waste effort, why can't we make nautilus location bar default aware of the windows style sharing path? to just translate it automatically? I don't quite know low level implementation of that nautilus support of "smb://...", may be in an extension? any guidance for me is welcome, I may have some time to implement such a feature;
How do your colleagues "post the path" exactly?
I have written that: \\machine-name\path1\path2\path3\... windows machine could open such path directly, while under Linux nautilus cannot; currently the nautilus behavior is it tries to open such a file "\\machine-name\path1\path2\path3\...", since "\" is not a path separator, in theory such named file is possible but it's very seldom, isn't it? the error dialog box shows: Could not display "/home/user/\\machine-name\path1\path2\path3\". The location is not a folder.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 446136 ***