Opening files from the Dolphin file browser on Windows 7

daycentbkb daycentbkb at zoho.com
Tue Jan 22 14:45:26 UTC 2013


As a work around if I map the network drive to a drive letter using Windows
Explorer then I can open files just fine when Dolphin has the drive letter
open. It seems that this is a samba issue. Can someone confirm this problem
occurs for them?

---- On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:47:37 -0800 daycentbkb  wrote ---- 

>On further investigation I found that this only occurs when I try to edit files 
>which reside on one of the servers here at work. The address bar in Dolphin 
>shows an address such as "smb://servername/path/to/files". So perhaps it's a 
>problem with editing files over a samba connection. 
> 
>DayCentbkb 
> 
>---- On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:31:23 -0800 daycentbkb  wrote ---- 
> 
> 
> > 
> > I would like to use Dolphin as my file browser because of features like the 
> > split window. When I click on any file such as a .txt file I get the Windows 
> > "open with" window in which I select gvim as the program with which to open 
> > the .txt file. I see the icons on my desktop flash, then nothing. The file 
> > does not get opened. How do I open files in the Dolphin file browser? 
> > 
> > DayCentbkb 
> > 
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