Issue 102569

Summary:	Openoffice.org cannot read files across home network
Product:	General	Reporter:	jcrogers1942 <jonathancrogers>
Component:	code	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues, kpalagin
Version:	OOo 1.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other OS
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description jcrogers1942 2009-06-06 17:15:20 UTC

Home network is dell desktop running XP with wireless connection to a dell
inspiron mini 10v running ubuntu 8.04.  Application is openoffice calc 2.4.1
running on ubuntu.  Double clicked an xls file resident on XP from ubuntu file
browser and openoffice opened and then closed without any apparent action taking
place.  Had to manually copy xls file from XP to ubuntu mini, then it opens
fine.   I have no problem viewing pictures or playing music stored on the XP
from the ubuntu mini by double clicking the XP file from ubuntu file browser.   
There seems to be no way of accessing a file across a simple network from
openoffice; the file has to be copied to the ubuntu local drive.  
I found a similar problem report 19287 but it appears to have been closed some
years ago(!)

Comment 1 kpalagin 2009-06-08 11:02:29 UTC

Please mount network folder before trying to open files from network.
Also please try latest version of OO, which is 3.1 at the moment.

Comment 2 jcrogers1942 2009-06-10 14:14:18 UTC

I tried mounting the network folder by clicking on Places â†’ Windows Network â†’
MSHOME â†’ Jonathanr â†’ My Documents and right clicking Mount Volume, but it made
no difference except that now the Openoffice application does not even launch.

I tried to load that latest version of Openoffice and downloaded it successfully
but running the installation program sounded complicated compared to Windows
(where I only have to type Run), and it seemed to imply that it was tricky
within Ubuntu, and am not even sure if it is supported by Ubuntu?

Comment 3 oc 2009-06-11 08:14:48 UTC

reassigned to component framework

Comment 4 jcrogers1942 2009-07-05 22:08:03 UTC

I have been trying to find a solution to the network problem described above and
at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+question/74342
and seem to have drawn a blank.  It appears to be either a bug on OO, or a bug
in GVFS, or somewhere in between, and none of the fixes suggested to me have
worked, and nobody seems to be able to tell me if there are any plans by either
OO or GVFS to fix this problem.  Can anyone tell me?  I remain amazed that OO
has not fixed what seems to me a very basic problem with OO file network access
in the Ubuntu environment(which doesnâ€™t exist in the OO Windows environment or
with access to picture and music access from the Ubuntu environment across to
Windows).