Hello, and thanks for at least reading this. I gave up on my Zune, and bought an IPOD...because it was sooo compatible with Linux. My problem is that I cannot get Amarok to recognize my network HD (1G Stora attached to network via Ethernet). I have mounted it via Ubuntu, and Banshee. Banshee was able to sync a small playlist, but crashes every time I attempt a considerable sync.

I have tried everything I could find so far (to get Amarok to work), and have had zero luck with Samba. The network HD is a windows share reached by 192.168._.___. I am a noob, so be kind in advice/terminal write-up's. Stats below:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV635 [Mobility Radeon HD 3670]
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV635 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 3600 Series]
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
09:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
09:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
09:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
09:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd -Picture Card Controller (rev 12)

did you enable the SMB Share Backend? settings -> configure Amarok -> settings -> plugins ->local collection backends -> SMB (Windows) Share Backend

updated - I forgot the plugins in the settings local

google01103, thank you for the quick response. I cannot find the setting you suggested. That may be my fault as I did not list the version I am using. I am using Amarok Version 2.5.0

it should be in 2.5, sorry my path to the setting was incomplete

I do not have that specific plugin, however...I do have one that is simular. I am not sure how to insert a pic in here, but I do have one named "NFS Device, Device plugin for Amarok which supports NFS". It was checked, but I must not be doing something right as I still cannot connect

NFS is Network File System, it is different from Samba - no idea why you don't see it

You'll need to add the share to your /etc/fstab so it's mounted automatically on startup. There are various guides around for this; for example, here.

Once you've done that, you can add the mount point of the share to your collection folders in Amarok (settings > configure Amarok > local collection).

Thank you Sentynel, I did every step in that. It is simular to others I have tried. No luck though. Here is my fstab, perhaps I screwed something up.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=a6e3d3ad-df12-44b3-a97b-bd22ca491231 / ext4 errors=remount-ro,user_xattr 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=5611fcd8-1408-4bc8-89c2-9f84c2d58ae0 none swap sw 0 0
# Mount our network drive
//192.168.0.103/SHARE /MOUNT-POINT smbfs guest 0 0
//servername/sharename /media/windowsshare cifs credentials=/home/ubuntuusername/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0 a

are you sure you have all the required Samba packages installed ?

You've got two separate lines in your fstab and seem only to have changed half of the values for either. Please read the guide, don't just copy lines out of it without understanding what you're trying to do.