Hi Peter, Thanks for the info. I guess it's just me then ;) I am not familiar with SMB or Samba at all. Could you possibly give me the guidelines for setting up an smbmount? I am not sure how the whole process works ... Thanks Jason On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 20:32, Peter Larsen wrote: > > It seems as though the various programs I use to view/edit > > files, such as Gedit or Vi, are not able to view or access files > > at SMB locations. Can anyone recommend a good editor that can > > both view and edit text files and RTF files at SMB locations? > > Hmmm - I access several windows networks from several of my linux boxes, and > never saw that problem? What I do is smbmount the shares I need, and from > then on, I never think of the data/files being on a windows network, linux > or anything else. It's just a cd away, and all my programs sees the files as > "usual". > > Only windows (to my knowledge) has the idea of you needing to specify the > physical aspect of a resource location. I like the way Unix has done this > from the get-go - you don't care if your data is on one huge disk, several > small ones, networked, memory based etc. - they are all part of the same > logical structure. It's up to the drivers to find out what to do - not the > application developer/user. > > Best Regards > Peter Larsen -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
