I have a NAS drive (Buffalo Linkstation) attached to my network.
In Opensuse 11.3 when wanting to watch a move it would launch right away.
I’m not sure what I have done with samba iin 11.4 but whenever I try to launch a move it copies the entire move to my computer before launching.
What setting have I missed here where it would launch right off.
If I access my NAS drive in dolphin using ftp protocol instead of samba the move launches right off.
Here is a copy of my smb.conf if it is of any help.
[global]
workgroup = farcusnet
netbios name = ThinkPad
passdb backend = tdbsam
name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins
server string =
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
printcap cache time = 750
cups options = raw
map to guest = Bad User
usershare allow guests = Yes
usershare max shares = 100
usershare owner only = false
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
os level = 65
use client driver = yes
include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S, %D%w%S
browseable = No
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
# [profiles]
# comment = Network Profiles Service
# path = %H
# read only = No
# store dos attributes = No
# create mask = 0600
# directory mask = 0700
[users]
comment = All users
path = /home
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
veto files = /aquota.user/groups/shares/
[groups]
comment = All groups
path = /home/groups
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
create mask = 0600
browseable = No
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/drivers
write list = @ntadmin root
force group = ntadmin
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
## Share disabled by YaST
# [netlogon]
I have tried the tutorial on your website to use a cifs mount and it seems to work ok.
I am mounting using the command
mount -t cifs -o guest //192.168.1.30/share /media/LinkStation
What I can’t work out is the command to unmount.
Although this works well - I don’t really understand how I was able to play the files without caching them in the local computer in 11.3 but not 11.4
One other question . . .
copying files using the ftp protocol to a local computer seems to happen at twice the speed of using samba.
Using ftp they transfer at about 9Mb and using Samaba about 3Mb.
Is this normal?
ftp and samba are both used within Dolphin.
on further investigation it appears there is some kind of problem that is more deep rooted than caching media files before playing.
In many applications - if I try to open a file on the network (whether a file on the NAS drive or another PC) I am getting the message “can only select local files”
In the case of media files I get this message in smplayer - but not in kaffeine.
I did not get this message in smplayer in opensuse 11.3.
I know that this is a common message to receive in Openoffice and there is not really an immediate solution for it but I had not seen this in other applications.
Anybody have any idea on what has changed and a possible solution?
I have a similar problem. I posted it under apps but no replies. I used dolphin to connect to it as a widoze network drive and everything works fine except if I try and play a movi on it with kaffeine. Kaffeine just comes up with
Cannot find input plugin for MRL “smb://,etc…avi”.
Looking about on the web there are comments that kaff needs xine-smb to play files over the network. No opensuse source for this but I did find an rpm for mandriva. If I try and install that it wants xine-plugins. Also seems that I would have to copy xine-smb to the required place. xine-plugins isn’t available on opensuse repo’s either. Only xine with plugins. Odd thing is that I thought that these were for browsers and wonder if breaking the xine-plugins would work but then where would I place xine-smb.
Leaves me shaking my head as playing things off the network isn’t an uncommon thing to want to do.
One good aspect of this is that getting kde to connect to the nas was nice and easy. Configuring the d-link 325 without going near the installation cd was easy too. It has a full web interface so I just had to assign it a static ip via my router.
hmmmmm . . . yeah, I am a little different to you.
I have no problem with xine/kaffeine. This is one of the few applications that can load from the nas drive
digging a little deeper the problem may be specific to mplayere / smplayer as other media applications can play without problem and without caching.
Interestingly mplayer and smplayer want to cache the file locally yet kmplayer will play without caching while using the same version of mplayer for playback. So it seems there is some kind of problem with the way mplayer (and its gtk interface) and smplayer behave with samba shares.
Don’t know if you have looked at my samba slow post but I suspect it’s a kde problem as it looks like the “can only select local files” is from kde. It may relate to this https://bugs.kde.org/253547
which would explain why you didn’t have this problem with an earlier release. Trouble is that vlc.desktop now has the correct incantations. It’s also looks like kaffiene doesn’t really expect to have to use a input plugin to receive these streams (ie data flows, most often a file as far as an app is concerned - not streaming video). From the few progs that I have tested there is clearly something amiss with how linux or more likely kde and it’s back ends handle these streams. It should be transparent to an application. That way changes don’t usually screw things up. Ranting 'cause I’m a software engineer. That sort of problem annoys me.
As far as my d-link dn-325 nas goes both samba and windoze are happy with it so I’m sure the problem doesn’t lie there.
I’ve looked further and it’s definitely a kde problem. Silly thing is that the tests I mentioned in the other posts prove that the data paths work read write and launch if kde lets them rather than interposing “can only select local files” or failing out with no error message. Given that they have put such things as http,smb in desktop files and really that sort of job should be left to file managers I wonder what they are at.
The categories statement doesn’t make any difference to VLC which runs locally fine and is a qt4 program. I’m told smplayer works most of the time but also misbehaves as well.
One good aspect of this is that getting kde to connect to the nas was nice and easy. Configuring the d-link 325 without going near the installation cd was easy too. It has a full web interface so I just had to assign it a static ip via my router.