Ubuntu – Xubuntu Libre Office Calc can not open network file

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I have newly installed Xubuntu desktop on a computer. I need to work with files on a NAS store (using samba shares). Libre Office can not open them.

I browse the network in Thunar and see all files. The are recognised as Open Office files (right icon).
I can copy files to my desktop.
I can open the files with gedit.
On double click I see the Libre Office5 splash sceen then then nothing happens. I do not get any error message.
When I open Libre Office I can browse to the file with the open dialog but after file selection, I am just back to the blank file.
I can edit the file after copying it to my desktop.
After uncommemting X-GIO-NoFuse=true in the config file I do get an error when trying to open the file:

General input/output error while accessing run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=, share=".
I have read about a bug to disable /use/share/applications/libroffice-calc.desktop and comment out x-KDE prototocls, but that did not help. The question is Can't open files through the network.

I did not try to mount the network share with fstab, since I need to be able to work with temporary shares in the file manager.

Anyone else having that problem? How can I solve that?

Using Xubunutu 16.04, amd64, kernel 4.4.0.-64-generic.

Best Answer

"I had a similar problem on Ubuntu. Make sure the Libreoffice Gnome integration package is installed. In my case the package was libreoffice-gnome"

https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/9549/unable-to-open-files-from-windows-share/?sort=votes#sort-top

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I have found an answer, but I do hope its not the best one. I found it in that post: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=144053. Its a workaround, really.

The desktop file managers mount network shares not in the home directory, but in the the linux directory tree. Actually an idea with consequences, because network shares contain user permissions. That means not every user is able to get access to very share. That means you can have the same share connected by different users at the same time, each with different permissions. That means, that the share can not be stored by share name, but there must be a destinction by user.

So in my case they have decided to put all shares mounted by a file manager to

 /run/user/1000/gvfs/

In that directory are all shares. The 1000 is my current the 'user id'. On a system with multiple users it could be 1061 or whatever. 'gvfs' is about the file system technology involved. The names are a bit cryptic like 'smb-share:server=myserver,share=images' but at least recognizable. Currently I fail to see the advantage compared to /home/username/shares, or ~/shares, which would be accessible from each application with 2 clicks. maybe someone can enlighten me.

So as described in the post the workaround is based on the fact that local bookmarks actually are listed in the file open dialogs (shares are not). So just goto your version of

 /run/user/1000/gvfs/

and add a bookmark. That is listed in the file open dialog, and then you are in the list of shares. You see a bookmark 'gvfs' which you can rename to "Network Shares"

So its solved principally and its event 2 clicks only, but it still somehow is a very bad solution and a workaround. I still can not browse the network. I can not see anything when I did not mount the share in a file manager. All the function is already there in the file manager, what could possibly block a decision to expose that function to the file open dialog? Please do not hesitate to add a comment that help a new user to understand that.

Thanks and hope for better answers.

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