Re: Sometimes Evince. Sometimes Adobe Reader

Santiago Erquicia said...
2006/9/19, marc <gmane@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

I'm not clear what you mean by: "Adobe Reader cannot access Samba
shares", since the problem does not occur in KDE. Adobe Reader shouldn't
have to use a specific protocol; that's what the intervening layers
between the file and app are for.


Adobe Reader doesn't use gnome-vfs so it cannot read a file from a
network filesystem such as SMB or NFS without those resources being
mounted to a directory.

I accept that Adobe Reader doesn't use gnome-vfs - and I'm really quite
delighted by that in this day and age - because an app shouldn't be tied
to a protocol (unless that is its function, of course).

Now, if you are asking whether the file is accessible over Samba, then
yes, as I said in my OP. In any case, Evince wouldn't open it if this
were not the case, and Nautilus wouldn't allow me to navigate to the
file's location.

If KDE file manager can open the file, the problem should be something
else and not gnome-vfs, given that KDE uses kio stuff to access
network resources and Adobe Reader doesn't use them either.

I can load other file managers (e.g. Krudsader and Konqueror) in Gnome
and access the file in the manner that I would expect; namely that it
opens in Adobe Reader. So, the issue is with Nautilus.

Is the samba share mounted to a directory?

No, I'm not using smbmount in this case, but simply a desktop link to

smb://machine/location

Okay, as a test, I created a directory and mounted the samba share via
smbmount - what a kerfuffle - and then navigated to the directory with
the samba mount in Nautilus. In this case, the file opens, as one would
expect, in Adobe Reader.

I'll file this as a Nautilus bug.

--
Best,
Marc


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