I have installed LibreOffice 7 on Linux and I am trying to use remotely some files on a Samba server from this LibreOffice.
My Samba server can be accessed by following IP: 192.168.1.10
Unfortunately the Help of LibreOffice is USELESS, as even does not mention the Samba server.
There is some words about Windows share but not enough clear and without any example.
I have tried many past versions of LibreOffice and unfortunately did not found nor clear explanation how to connect to Samba by IP nor working examples.
Dear All, if some one could manage this to work, and could connect a Samba server from LibreOffice by the IP address of Samba and could open some share to see some files there and open and save some file there, please show me some example how to make such connection correctly.
Do that on a system level, which is the right place to manage storage (imo applications should not manage storage devices) and use something like:
sudo mount -v -t cifs \\192.168.1.10\<nameofshare> <mountpoint> -o user=<user>,password=<password>,uid=<uid>,gid=<gid> where
- : name of the SAMBA share
- : path to the directory where you want to appear the share (eg,
$HOME/MyShare) - : your login user on the SAMBA server
- : your password on the SAMBA server
- : You user id on the local system
- : Your group id on the local system
Help of LibreOffice is USELESS, as even does not mention the Samba server
Of course there is no need to mention SAMBA servers at all, since SAMBA is supposed to work like a Windows Server works (in fact it is designed to replace Windows Servers with respect to provide network storage to SMB/CIFS clients).
Dear Opaque,
Thank you very much for your answer.
I confirm it works and can be used as explained.
But given way of access by mounting from CLI is probably is not very comfortable for regular users.
Much more usable and easy is to use smb4k for mount and unmount the shares. Using smb4k is really comfortable to mount and unmount some Samba share and to work on the server share from LibreOffice.
But I think given above are just only ways to workaround the problem. And my problem is that remotely open and remotely save functionality of LibreOffice is not working or probably there is no clear explanation how to make it work for Samba servers, directly from LibreOffice.
You may know that Samba server does same as Widows SMB/CIFS share. But regular Joe may not know it.
He will getting opinion that LibreOffice remote functionality “does not work” with Samba servers. So is it so difficult, after all options mentioned there for different servers, to put just one short text like “Samba server connections are same as Windows and for Samba please use Windows option”? I believe such short wording will make big difference for the users.
But if this Windows share option in the LibreOffice remote dialogue is working, then how exactly one can do such connection to Samba via IP address (directly from LibreOffice without CLI mount actions or smb4k)?
Is it possible at all?
If you can manage to create reliable connections for remotely open/save via IP address on a Samba server directly from LibreOffice, could you please be so kind and give some working example using this Windows share dialogue in LibreOffice?
With best regards,
And how does this answer solve the question?