This is beginning to look like a bug that maybe should spread. I have been playing around with amarok which seemed to work with files off the nas. If I launch click an mp3 on the nas all is ok. It plays but if I try to generate a play list with it it fails to play them again. If I navigate to the nas via amarok and select an mp3 it won't accept it. So it looks like for some reason kde is passing it a file when an mp3 is launched. I don't think they are being downloaded before playing otherwise the playlist should still work. I wonder if this all relates to this "bug" https://bugs.kde.org/253547. Biggest problem with that is that the X-KDE-Protocols shown there are correct in my VLC .desktop file. Amarok only has http added. It doesn't work either way with VLC despite it having a files input which includes an increased buffer time for use over the network. I'm not sure if it's "can only open local files" when one is selected off the nas error message is down to kde or what. John KDE 4.6.0 - 6 64bit ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.