Problems opening files from smb/ftp in Nautilus

[Hans Nieser]

Hi list,

I have been having a few annoyances with opening files from SMB shares and 
FTP connections in Nautilus ever since I started using Gnome (2.10 / 2.12 
) and was hoping if anyone on this list could assist me.

The first problem, is when opening a file that is on an SMB share / FTP 
server to which I have read/write access, it is always opened in read-only 
mode when opened with gedit. The fact that this only happens with gedit 
and not with Screem (a web dev IDE), leads me to believe this is probably 
something with gedit. This is however a bit of an annoyance as I have a 
rather large collection of simple text files which I store on another 
computer, and I would really like to be able to open and edit these with 
gedit, and not Screem (which would be a bit overkill for simple 
textfiles), without copying them around all the time.

The second problem is opening files from an FTP volume. I have made a 
'connection' on my desktop to an FTP server on my LAN. When I browse 
through it and double click a text-file (opened by gedit by default), it 
errors and gives me a popup stating:

"Couldn't display ftp://hans@royen:21/usr/home/hans/Documents/Notes/todo.txt

There was an error launching the application"

The file's permissions are rw (not x) and its filetype is "Plain text 
document" (I should note however that Nautilus' permissions column says 
"unknown" for all the files on the FTP).

The odd thing is however when I right-click the file and open it with an 
alternative progran (such as Screem) by using the 'Open with "Screem"' 
option, it opens just fine. When I make Screem the primary application for 
the file-type "Plain text document", then double-click the text-file, it 
also fails. So this time around it's not something specific with gedit, 
because when I then right-click the text-file and choose 'Open with "Text 
Editor"' it opens fine (although, again in read-only, the first problem I 
described above).

I've tried seaching on google but have not found anything relevant. I've 
been hinted in #freebsd-gnome on FreeNode IRC that it may be related to 
VFS, but my knowledge on VFS is rather limited and wouldn't know where to 
start looking. Can anyone assist me in tackling these problems?