On Thursday 02 April 2009 06:09:59 Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> problem. Interestingly I have similar problem with KDE 3 (Ubuntu 8.04)
> and XFCE 4 with Thunar. LXDE (using pcmanfm) seems to work.
>
> More info:
> http://www.debianhelp.org/node/5411
> http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/850487.html
>
> The recommended solution is to mount the shared drive. I tend
> to think this is not a very good solution. For now, VLC solved
> the problem.

Oh! It just never occured to me that you were using an unmounted file-system 
thru the GUI.

That just doesn't seem the 'right' thing to do, to me. (= 

Mplayer is supposed to support the smb:// protocol too. So, you may be able to 
use that too. 

Cheers.

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