Bug 328728

Summary:	Cannot open remote documents on Windows
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	christoph, keaneyw, michal.humpula
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	triaged
Version First Reported In:	3.10.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Other
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Kai Uwe Broulik 2013-12-12 15:55:24 UTC

Trying to open a file on a remote location on windows, such as
\\server\some\file.txt
fails and Kate says "Cannot open file /server/some/file.txt as it cannot be read. Make sure you have permissions"
Browsing said location works fine in the Open dialog (Windows' native file dialog) as well as Dolphin (which correctly uses smb://server/some/file.txt) but Kate seems to not understand the URL and tries to open a local location that doesn't exist

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a remote SMB location \\server\some\file.txt
2. Open this file in Kate (can also be reproduced by using the Open dialog in Kate and browsing to the file from there)
3.
Actual Results:  
It cannot open the document as it tries to access /server/some/file.txt instead of smb://server/some/file.txt

Expected Results:  
It opens the file properly using the smb KIO like Dolphin does correctly.

Comment 1 Michal Humpula 2013-12-31 19:59:11 UTC

Hi Kai,

does this happens with kwrite too?

Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2013-12-31 20:02:32 UTC

Will try once I'm back in the office on January 7, stay tuned.

Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2016-09-07 18:43:52 UTC

=> Please try with current https://kate-editor.org/get-it/ versions.
If that still happens, this needs to reported to KIO, as we just use the generic KIO stuff from KParts.

Comment 4 Christoph Cullmann 2016-09-07 18:44:29 UTC

*** Bug 330862 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-26 22:15:20 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with no change in 30 days, the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information.

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Comment 6 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-10-27 03:58:12 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging

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