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[The_Jaymz]

Hi,
I'm running a FC4 workstation in a predominantly Windows environment. Is there a GUI application that works with Samba to act like Windows' Network Neighborhood?
Thanks,
Jaymz

[kg4cbk]

Try nautilus. Use smb://server/share.

[fredjiang]

with that smb://server/ command I can browse shared files. But I can't seem to open MP3 files (without copying it first). I tried xmms and vlc.
Any ideas? Thanks

[kg4cbk]

Do you have mp3 files associated to a program?

[fredjiang]

Yes, but that doesn't matter since I can choose what program I want to use to open it. And xmms & vlc & totem do not work.

[kg4cbk]

Do those programs have mp3 support? Fedora does not ship with mp3 support due to licensing issues.

You will need to install something like mplayer from a third party repository to get mp3 support.

[fredjiang]

yes those programs have mp3 suppose. they can open mp3 files locally no problem

[c4raku]

is the folder you're getting the mps3's from set to read only by chance?

[Heon2574]

If you want to play those mp3s and videos off the windows network shares, you're going to have to mount (as root) them. I believe the command goes like this:

mount -t smbfs -o guest "//COMPUTERNAME/share" /home/fredjiang/share

Where share is the folder name you make for the mount point. Good luck :)