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Problem reading NAS files - Thicksilver - 06-22-2014
Hi All
A pleasure to meet you.
Never been on a forum before and my linux/unix experience stretches all the way back to yesterday so sorry if I am having trouble with the blindingly obvious. I'm also an old guy and the the jargon and TLAS'a are a bit of a stretch at times so I crave your collective indulgence. I've been back throgh the archive for the last year with no similar problems which gives me some confidence I am just missing something simple (who said a brain?) which smarter people just fix.
To horse so to speak. I loaded Linux Lite yesterday onto an old Samsung N140 notebooke after speaking to the village evangelist (for LL) and it was a breeze. Much faster than W7 for start-up, the internet and all the things you already know better than me.
I keep all my data on a D-Link 323 NSA (Raid 1)so I hooked up following the instructions on the site. No problem so far. In use the device is recognised and I can access the NSA and navigate the file structure.
If I try to load a JPG by clicking on it or opening using using image viewer I get no error message but also no picture. If I do the same using GIMP I can see the thumbnail but get an error message which tells me that the folder and file don't exist and the thumbnail is out of date. If I navigate to the same picture from within image viewer I can view it. No joy with GIMP though. With documents I can't get anywhere. Libreoffice loads and then vanishes whichever way I come at it. Most of the documents, some .odt some .doc were created using open office. I copied a document to the laptop and Libreoffice opened it fine. I have had some limited joy with PDF's. Sorry about the bad language but my Windows computers access all of the files with no trouble so it is not a data corruption problem.
I would really appreciate a nudge in the right direction.
Sorry to a be a bit long winded but we wrinklies never know when to stop....
Re: Problem reading NSA files - Richard B - 09-06-2014
Hello from another old guy (see my intro posting today). I confirm the problem opening LibreOffice files from network attached storage (NAS) and have posted a bug report on https://www.linuxliteos.com/bugs/ - though I think the problem may be "upstream" - in recent updates to Ubuntu perhaps.
Re: Problem reading NSA files - Scott(0) - 09-06-2014
Hello Thicksilver,
I don't have personal experience with NAS devices but I might be able to point you in the right direction, at least until something better comes along.
Here's a link to a Linux Mint post with the title - How to Access my NAS (d-link 343) <SOLVED>. The date on the post is March, 2012 so keep that in mind.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=97954&f=157
Googling phrases like:
linux access nas
linux d-link 343
linux dns-343
resulted in many hits.
It probably won't translate directly but how about the network shares section in the LL Manual?
https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/index.html
Manual > Network (at top of page) > Network Shares
Manual > Network (at top of page) > Accessing you Linux Lite Shares from Windows
Manual > Network (at top of page) > Accessing you Windows Shares from Linux Lite
~Scott
Re: Problem reading NSA files - Richard B - 09-15-2014
Try installing libreoffice-gnome - it worked for me and Jerry (Valtam) intends to include it in the next release. Bug report 36 refers.