GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 109133
Hard to open files at network locations.
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 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
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.
*** Bug 121139 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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.
Reopening to mark as dup of (old) bug 44932.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44932 ***