My apology if this has been answered in another thread, but my searching failed to find an answer.

I am running Amarok 1.4.7 on Ubuntu Feisty via KDE 3.5.6.

I have audio stored on a local drive via /mnt/music and more audio stored on another machine via a Samba mount at /mnt/podcast

Amarok's [Settings -> Configure -> Collection] has both locations selected but [Tools -> Rescan collection] finds and indexes only the local content and none of the Samba mounted content.

The Samba mount is working to the extent that I can navigate to it in Konqueror and write, read and delete a new file there. I can also read all the other content there.

In Amarok, if I use the Files tab in the interface, I can see and play all of the contents of /mnt/podcast. It's just that Amarok refuses to add them to the Collection, so copying to my portable player involves manually clicking through folders in the Files menu to find things - hardly a sane way to use it.

Any ideas why Amarok won't index the content to its Collection?

try the suggestions on the Amarok wiki... http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Samba

Thanks for suggesting the wiki, but I have exhausted all of those suggestions.

You'll note from my post that the samba mount is mounting locally (what the wiki helps with) and I have tried messing with its permissions even to allowing write access.

The jarring issue for me is that Amarok can see the content via its file browser and can play that content if I navigate to an audio file that way - it's just that the Collection refuses to index it.

so your mount parameters match the rw/ro of the share exactly? That is, if the share is set read only on the server, you must specify ro when you mount it. That's the main problem people have, and it doesn't seem to be all versions of samba that have the problem. Check the rest of the forum too - there are quite a lot of threads about samba.

Also, look around for Amarok 1.4.8 - might have been scanner fixes, I can't remember.

Sorted.

The missing ingredient was in the smb.conf on the machine hosting the files. I added:

guest account =

...and Amarok started indexing them. Nice.