On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Shawn Tan wrote: > 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. (= It is not unmounted file system. It is user space file system using fuse, fusesmb works fine for me with Ubuntu 8.04/8.10 under Gnome. The following pages describes fusesmb. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FuseSmb Quote: Its main advantage over mounting shares manually is its flexiablity in the settings, and how it auto updates and finds new shares as they appear on the network. As a Ubuntu Gnome user for a long time, I think this is way better than the mount approach. Regards, Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist