On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:46:00 -0500, H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I tried that. Let us say I have a machine with samba running, called M, > and a shared folder on it called Videos. And I want to play a video on > machine called A. > > I can browse the samba share on M from A using smb://M/Videos in > Konqueror. If I then try to play a video (on A) this way, it appears > that A is first copying the whole video data to somewhere locally (maybe > in /var on A) before playing it. This doesn't seem right in the sense > that A is not treating smb://M/Vidoes as a local storage. Or (more > likely) I am doing some wrong with the samba setup. > > Related question: this method of installing a samba server on a machine > and putting all multimedia files on shared directories and then > accessing those shared directories from the machine one wants to play > the media on, is this one of the methods to do this kind of thing?
It sounds pretty normal and it works for me. It's how most (presumably all) "network-attached storage" (NAS) devices work. Do you have the samba share mounted on the machine you are trying to view the video from? I cannot get the smb://M/Videos approach to work; albeit I have only just tried it. Try mounting the Videos directory and then see what happens. Something like: # mount -t cifs //M/Videos /mnt/videos -o [ options ] Then use Konqueror to look in /mnt/videos/ > Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding > newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just > filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without > ever having been read. Well said ;-) -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
