I thought I'd mess around a bit and found this popup message. I opened up OO and selected the open file icon, I surfed to the folder on the smb server and double clicked on the file. OO popped up the message below:
** Protocol "smb" is supported only partially. Local copy of the file will be created. ** It did open up a local copy, so at least its some progress. -- Kubuntu / KDE SMB network error using openoffice word docs https://launchpad.net/bugs/15451 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
