AFAIK its all simply due to filesystem enumeration having a problem with .gvfs under /home - reason, if I put a symlink called eg 'Remote' to '/home/[USER]/.gvfs' on USER's Desktop then I can navigate via 'Remote' to network shares in OO3.2 and Mozilla Firefox 3.0.19 and plain Nautilus - all on Ubuntu 9.04
This problem also affects use of OpenOffice 3.2
AFAIK its all simply due to filesystem enumeration having a problem with .gvfs under /home - reason, if I put a symlink called eg 'Remote' to '/home/ [USER]/ .gvfs' on USER's Desktop then I can navigate via 'Remote' to network shares in OO3.2 and Mozilla Firefox 3.0.19 and plain Nautilus - all on Ubuntu 9.04