Unable to stream music from samba share

[Gryphraff]

I'm currently running Pardus 2011 on a Dell 10v, which is a nice combo. I'd like to stream music from my Windows server - MP3 mostly - to the Pardus machine.

I can create the share just fine, but any attempts to open and play a file over the network gives me a "You can only select local files" error box. Queuing files is ok, as it copies them to the local machine, but that's not an option with a large amount of music. Clementine and a few other music players do this.

I'm guessing this has something to do with the programs in question not being able to handle the smb protocol, whereas Dolphin is designed to do that. Research suggests it has to do with permissions and such, but the information I found didn't really mean a whole lot, other than "Yeah, it does that..."

 Any ideas?

[atolboo]

Any ideas?

Short answer: NO

[Gryphraff]

It looks like I would have to mount the remote share into a local folder to make that happen. I don't understand mounting stuff yet, so that will have to wait...

[atolboo]

......I don't understand mounting stuff yet, so that will have to wait...

Try System Settings > Disk Manager.....
May it will the solution.

[dedebekri]

I was wondering the same, finally solved it!  

First make a directory in /mnt;
sudo mkdir /mnt/Mp3

Then mount remote directory to your newly created /mnt/Mp3;
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.XXX/SHARED/DIRECTORY/Mp3 /mnt/Mp3 -o username=YOURUSERNAME,passwd=YOURPASSWORD,noexec

Well, you need to know the IP address as well as username and password on the remote machine. That's it.
Now add your /mnt/Mp3 to Clementine's library and enjoy!...

EDIT: If you'd like to mount the shared directory everytime your machine boots, you need to add it to /etc/fstab list;
sudo nano /etc/fstab

add this to your list;
//192.168.0.XXX/SHARED/DIRECTORY/Mp3 /mnt/Mp3 cifs username=YOURUSERNAME,passwd=YOURPASSWORD,noexec  0 0