Hey guys, i've been running an fedora server for a long while now,
sharing a samba server..

Lately im considering to furbish up my XP machine to linux, and have tried some things on kubuntu..

My findings where that i can't get the same " stream " like effect ( windows -> linux ), ( i just create a playlist from the samba share dir's and off we go in winamp... ) and i want to get the same result: e.g.

Linux mounted drive or something like that, to read out my files, and simply add them to XMMS to play.. Altough i've found some issues in this process..

I hope anyone else is using this method ( i like to keep my activities seperated, music, photos, etc are on my server machine.. ), and can point me in the right direction to gain the same results?

Not sure if it would be relevant but the server is an fedora 7, kubuntu latest version...

Thanks!

I have a fedora 6 "server" and a fedora 8 "desktop" and export my files from the server via nfs. as far as playing them on my desktop with xmms, i queued them with: and they've played fine for me.


if you want to use samba to access them from your client, you should be able to mount it and access it as if it were a local filesystem from there.

mount -t smbfs \\server\share /mnt/smbshare

then just queue them in xmms however you please

(I'm not familiar with ubuntu and the mount above is an example from memory and may not be completely syntax accurate)

Hope this helps.

thanks for your reply, i'll give it a try tommorow thanks!