[kio-extras] [Bug 413825] open smb:// link to files

[Alexander Fieroch]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413825

--- Comment #2 from Alexander Fieroch <alexander.fieroch at mpi-dortmund.mpg.de> ---
Usually we open files by opening the smb server shared path and clicking on
files in dolphin.

But there is another use case:

We have samba shared folders on our servers and PDFs or other text files for
the users to read before they should use these folders or just containing
information about their files.

In several cases our users are informed by automatically generated mails about
their data on the shares and the way how to use shares (e.g. filename
conventions). In these emails there are smb links to the users shared folders
and to the readme pdf/txt files with more detailed information. So users can
click on the smb links in their mail client to open their shared folders
directly on the server. 
It would be great if they also could click on the readme or other files which
are linked in the mails to open directly (like
smb://hostname/share/filename.pdf). Currently in produces an error because
dolphin tries to open the smb linkded file as a directory shared name. The
system is configured to open smb links in mails with dolphin as this works
great for directory shares and would be more great and more consistent to also
open smb linked files.

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