On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > 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. > On the other hand, quite some people were hit by the fusesmb/smbclient bug under Linux (Ubuntu, Arch, etc). https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fusesmb/+bug/198351 http://guide.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6743501 My brother-in-law is now experimenting Xubuntu 8.10 based HiWeed Linux and was hit by the Thunar/fusesmb problem. One possible solution is to dowgrade smbclient to 8.04 version. The other solution is to use pcmanfm instead of Thunar. Hiweed: Xubuntu respin with Chinese enhancements. http://www.hiweed.com/ (runs well with XFCE or LXDE) Regards, Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist