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n3olynx

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From: New York, NY

Registered: 2004-12-06

Posts: 46

XMMS and Samba

I want to play mp3s located on my desktop windows share from my laptop wirelessly.  So far, I can play the mp3s fine through noatun because I can access the files by setting the location smb:/desktop/D . But, I want to use xmms to play my mp3's.

I mounted the windows share using smbmount. I set xmms to use alsa. The mp3s play for about 10 seconds and then completely stops. Does anyone know what's going on? How can I solve this problem?

FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

Posts: 1,029

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Re: XMMS and Samba

Does the share work fine otherwise? Can you access files without problems?

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n3olynx

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From: New York, NY

Registered: 2004-12-06

Posts: 46

Re: XMMS and Samba

Yes. I can access the shares fine. I transfered a couple of files fine wirelessly without interrupt. I found out that Noatun doesn't stream the mp3's it downloads them to play them.  Any ideas why xmms can't stream the mp3's?

FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

Posts: 1,029

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Re: XMMS and Samba

Just a suggestion, but what if you mount the Samba-share with the mount command, instead of the smbmount command?

mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pword hostname://share /mnt/samba

I don't know the exact syntax, but it should be something similar.

man mount

if you can't get it to work.

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oscar

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From: Kiruna, Sweden

Registered: 2004-08-13

Posts: 457

Re: XMMS and Samba

appending uid and gid to your -o might be useful!

mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pword,uid=youruser,gid=yourusersgroup //hostname/share /mnt/samba

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