I hosed my last install, so I am trying again. I have the adept updater furiously cranking as I type. I am planning to go easy on the customization this time around in an effort to not have to start over. With that in mind, I am trying to use Amarok as my music player. All of my music is on a windows share. I can browse to it and play files by clicking on them or dragging and dropping them to the playlist, but I can't scan to add them to my collection. From searching it seems that I need to mount the share in order for Amarok to search it. However, I can't find the smbmount command. Do I need to install addition packages or has the command changed. I would like to mount two different shares manually to insure they work and then make the appropriate additions to my fstab to mount them automatically each time I boot. I have read this forum and the Ubuntu forum with no joy so far. Thanks.
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Re: Mount Samba Share
Hi,
You should be able to do it in /etc/fstab. Add a line like this :
//ip_address/share_name /mount_point smbfs usename=<user>,password=<pass>,rw,uid=<yourlinuxus er> 0 0
And it should be ok.
You can also use credential file not to store password in /etc/fstab, as I'm alone on my computer, I don't care
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Re: Mount Samba Share
have you tried going to REMOTE SHARES and clicking on ADD A REMOTE NETWORK FOLDER? When you do, you'll see an opportunity to define a windows network drive.
hth,
r.
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Re: Mount Samba Share
Sorry for not following up on this. I was not able to get it working previously and ran out of time. I installed the latest release with updates and everything seems to be working now. Thanks for you help.Comment
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