Bug 330862

Summary:	Can browse to, but not open, files on UNC paths
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Will Keaney <keaneyw>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	christoph
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Will Keaney 2014-02-06 19:34:11 UTC

Kate version 4.10.2, mingw64 build on Windows 7 x64.
Opening files on CIFS shares in an Active Directory environment.

I'm able to open the files if I first map the share to a local drive letter, and open them from that path instead of the direct UNC path.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Kate
2. Click 'Open File', or any other method to get the file open dialogue
3. Browse to a file on a remote path (\\<server>\path\to\file)

Actual Results:  
Kate browses to the file's location successfully, but throws this error when trying to open the file:

The file /<server>/<share>/<directory>/<directory>/<file> could not 
be loaded, as it was not possible to read from it.
Check if you have read access to this file.

Expected Results:  
Kate should open the file.

Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2016-09-07 18:44:29 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.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 328728 ***