Hi!

I just installed amarok on fedora. I have 2 computers: one with windows, where I got all my music, and the one with fedora and amarok. Both are connected through a RJ45, and this works ok (I get internet on the linux system, and I can access the files in the windows system from the fedora computer).

However, if I try to use amarok to play files placed on the other computer, it will play nothing. And of course I can\'t find the way to make the library look for files on the other computer.


I\'m a linux newbie, so take that into account. Besides, to access to the other computer, I used the Connect with the server... option using \"Shared by windows\". Now it\'s mounted on my desktop, and I can reach the files though there.


Thanks in advance!

Hi,
you can\'t build a library on a samba share, \'cause there\'s no \"local\" path present for amorok to search in. You need to mount the windoze share. Perhaps you can try to drag\'n\'drop a music file into amarok\'s playlist window. First create a mountpoint, let\'s say /media/music. Then you\'ll need something like
//winbox/share /media/music smbfs defaults 0 0
in your /etc/fstab. Try \"mount /media/music\" as root (you don\'t use passwords for sharing, I hope). If this works, you can build your library from within /media/music.
If you use passwords, you need username=yourusernameonwin,password=yourpasswordonwin instead of defaults in fstab. More info with \"man smbmount\".
As I don\'t use fedora, probably the share is mounted somewhere. So first try mount in console to see if it\'s the case.

Good luck
m0nk

Thanks for the reply.

I think I understand the idea. So you have to mount the files on an actual fedora folder, so that amaroK can see it, right?

The problem is I am Linux newbie, a very newbie one :blush:

I didn\'t use Samba at all to access the other computer files. I had setup the network with the Windows assistant, so I knew the domain name and \"server\" name of the other computer. I used those in fedora, and now I have the other computer mounted on my graphic desktop (it\'s not on my Desktop folder). And that works ok.

So, how can I tell linux to mount that on media/music?


Thanks!!

Hi,
you\'re using samba, but as client. Now once more (as already writen in my first reply!!).http://amarok.kde.org/components/com_si ... s/wink.png
1. Open a console (konsole on KDE or gnome-terminal on GNOME).
1a. Here you can try:
smbclient -L nameofwinbox
You should see the shares on your winbox.
2. Become root !
3. Create a folder for mounting your share, let\'s say /media/share:
mkdir -p /media/share
4. Type in:
smbmount //servername/sharename /media/share
where server is the name of your winbox and share, well I think this should be clear. If nothing goes wrong, you can change to /media/share and you should see the files of your winboxes share.
5. For automagically mounting the share add the following line to your /etc/fstab:
//servername/sharename /media/share smbfs defaults 0 0
6. As already said, when using username,password on the winbox, replace \"defaults\" with \"username=yourusername,password=yourpassword\" in fstab.
7. type exit in the console
8. Open amarok and browse to your mounted share.

BTW: italics should be typed in console. Bolds should be added to a file

m0nk

Thanks a lot for the reply. That\'s what a linux newbie needs

Unfortunately, I got stuck in the first step:

smbclient -L nameofwinbox
Connection to nameofwinbox failed

Okay,
are you kidding me? nameofwinbox means, that you enter the name of your windows computer, serving the shares. I don\'t know the name, so I\'m using placeholders.

Greetings
m0nk

First of all, thank you for your patience. Unfortunately I was not kidding, I have no idea of Linux as you\'ve already seen :blush: . Your directions were great and very clear, but I found another problem.

When I type smbmount, I get
-bash: smbmount: command not found

No problem with the smbclient though.


Thanks!

Hi,
try to replace smbmount with mount -t smbfs. Have you inserted the line in /etc/fstab? Then you can try mount /media/share,too.

Greetings
m0nk

Hi again

I found out that they replaced smbmount with cifs in fedora 5, so that\'s what I tried and it work! I used mount -t cifs and I finally could make the library work.

No, what i hope is my last question:

How can i edit fstab to mount this everytime I boot the computer?


Thanks for all your help!

Hi,
fine, now it works so far. CIFS is the successor of smbfs. So you can add the following line to your fstab
//servername/sharename /media/share cifs defaults 0 0
where servername is your Windows computer and sharename is the directory.

Keep on amaro(c)kin\'
m0nk

Works great but for one little thing. It asks my passwork while booting. Can I add something into the file to avoid this?


THANKS!!!

Hi,
just replace defaults with user=yourusername,pass=yourpassword in fstab, where user and password are the ones you use on Windows.

Greetings
m0nk

Thank you very much for all your help. I really appreciate it, you were very useful and patiente.

THANKS A LOT!

Using amarok with Ubuntu 6.06

When I follow the instructions above using "mount -t smbfs", I get the response:-

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //nas/podcasts,
      missing codepage or other error
      In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
      dmesg | tail  or so

Any ideas?

Hi Martin and hopefully any other willing helpers!

I've been looking for something like Amarok for a long time, my thanks.

My apologies if this is in the wrong thread. And at the length of this post.

Martin Goose wrote:Using amarok with Ubuntu 6.06

When I follow the instructions above using "mount -t smbfs", I get the response:-

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //nas/podcasts,
      missing codepage or other error
      In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
      dmesg | tail  or so

Any ideas?

I use Ubuntu 6.06 too! I'm a complete linux novice. After far too many hours....
After trying heaps of aps to mount the network shares I decided there inherent instability was causing me my troubles. I also decided that Amarok (can't remember where I read it) was more stable on kde (kubuntu) rather than gnome based ubuntu. If you choose to use kde there's an article of sorts (that worked for me) here:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/ind ... 86555.html
and an explanation of what it's doing is here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingKDE
However I don't understand this to be essential.

My real discovery was:
"How to mount/unmount network folders manually, and allow all users to read"
located as part of the incredibly useful ubuntu onofficial guide:

How to mount/unmount network folders manually, and allow all users to read
Read #General Notes
Read #How to install Samba Server for files/folders sharing service
e.g. Assumed that network connections have been configured properly
Network computer's IP: 192.168.0.1
Network computer's Username: myusername
Network computer's Password: mypassword
Shared folder's name: linux
Local mount folder: /media/sharename
To mount network folder
sudo mkdir /media/sharename
sudo mount //192.168.0.1/linux /media/sharename/ -o username=myusername,password=mypassword

To unmount network folder
sudo umount /media/sharename/

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#How_ ... rs_to_read
If you keep scrolling down it has similiar sorts of instructions (read/write/permenant mounts on boot instructions etc)

Okay so that works for me now but...
If I point Amarok to the collection Amarok doesn't seem to be able to build the database. I suspect there is just to many files there and it conks out. If I point it to a smaller subdirectory say one that only has 50 tracks it has no problems at all, works beautifully in fact (hence i'm so Amarok obsessed!). Any ideas anyone?

If I point it to build a collection off all the tracks it basically locks up. I then have to do a force terminate and the share dissapears (?!?). And I can't unmount it in the terminal because it says it's in use.

Network wise. I can stream music fine using rhythmbox in ubuntu, but it builds the database everytime and does have the same groovey functionality of Amarok. I've even streamed wirelessly, so I don't  believe it's my infrastructure problem. Would an earlier build perhaps help? Assuming, we/I can eventually get it working, do I have to enable the whole dynamic collection thing? It's one of the big reasons I like the idea of using Amarok.

My setup:

• Ubuntu 6.06 (latest) with kde kubuntu on top.
  Amarok 1.4.2
  NAS music (approx 7000 mp3 tracks) stored on a synology disk station 101j

Cheers,
Chris

[EDIT: Just found a good article here:
http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesystem ... ently.html

Okay so after searching for ages, there's already a thread on it!
http://amarok.kde.org/forum/index.php/t ... 916.0.html
"Cannot build collection (Collection scan was aborted, since too many problems..)"
And yes, it appears it was stearing at me in the face the whole time!]