Music over Samba

[yakkob]

I have a desktop with windows xp and a wireless laptop with kubuntu dapper, soon to be edgy.

The desktop contains all my music and I want to listen to it on the laptop without having to transfer it over... I used to be able to do it when the laptop had windows xp. Samba is up and running great. Though every time I try to access the network shared audio files the programs I am using to listen to them either crash or give an error message they don't play anything.

Any suggestions.

[Saragon]

Re: Music over Samba

I don't know why it does this but it is the same for me.
I managed to access my songs in my XP machine by installing SMBFS in the adept package manager.
Then I mount my XP drive by doing :

sudo mount - t smbfs //[XP machine name]/music /mnt/music

I'm using Amarok to play music and it works like a charm.

[lingenfr]

Re: Music over Samba

I have a line in /etc/fstab to mount my Music share that resides on an XP SP2 box (currently, going to move it to Linux as well). The line in fstab is:

//192.168.1.104/Music /media/music smbfs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,dmask=777,fmask=777 0 0

192.168.1.104 is the XP box with the music share. I do have smbfs loaded. The smbcredentials files contains the login/pwd for my XP box. This mounts it read/write. I have the wife and kids mount read only. The upside of this is that it is easy. I have AmaroK set with my collection pointed to /media/music. There are other solutions, but this is the most convenient I have used and works well for the less experienced users on my home net. There are several howtos on the web that will give much better detail on my setup. Good luck.