On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 8:00 AM, David Gerard <dgerard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I wanted to play music in VLC for Windows off a network SMB share. [*] > Music's on \\red\trollop\music\ so I put that into VLC and it didn't > like it. > > So I started "wine explorer" from the command line and went to > "Connect network drive ..." and it came up with a dialogue box: "No > network" - that's all. > > Is this actually supposed to work properly, or is something wrong? > > > [*] Trying to do this in KDE4 is an exercise in pain. The only app > that appears able to stream from an smb:// URL is Dragon, and that > doesn't play folders or have a playlist - all the others copy the file > before starting playback. Amarok 2 should do it, but crashes if you > look at it funny. Suggestions welcomed. > > > - d. > > Mount the share in samba and then add it in winecfg. -- -Austin
