Hi everybody,

I'm fairly new to the Linux business and I'm currently trying out different media players. I have most of my media shared on a Windows 7 machine and after some work and a lot of reading I was finally able to access this windows share via Ubuntu through Samba. The share is currently mounted to my music folder and I can browse all files, open mp3s with Rythmbox and other players, but I can't seem to access them in Amarok. I tried adding the folder to my collection, but no files are added after scanning for almost an hour and when I navigate to the local folder from within Amarok I can see all folders, but simply no files (which are perfectly visible and accessible in Nautilus.

Any idea what the problem might be? As said above I'm pretty new so I don't know all the tricks yet. I would really appreciate any help because from what I read and have seen so far Amarok looks like a really great piece of technology.

Best whiches,
MrMister

This is a well-known problem, a quick search on the web or a look at the Amarok Wiki brings you to this page:
http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Samba

Hi marcel,

thank you for the quick reply. I've tried for roughly two hours to get it to work and following the instructions on the page you posted, but I just can't get it to work.

This is the current line in fstab:

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//192.168.178.28/musik /home/myusername/Musik cifs credentials=/home/myusername/smbcredentials,file_mode=0444,dir_mode=0555 0 0

The mounting itself works perfectly (even after switching from the previous smbfs to cifs), I just don't see any files in Amarok. Could you please help me out? It seems my limited knowledge of Linux is still giving me a hard time, although I'm trying hard

Greetings,
mrmister

No one's got an idea for me?

Try to mount the share writable by setting file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755 and add uid=yourusername to the options. As root

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$>umount /home/myusername/Musik
$>mkdir -p /net/Musik
$>mount -t cifs -o fmask=644,dmask=755,uid=myusername,credentials=/where/ever //192.168.178.28/musik /net/Musik

Check if the files/dirs are owned by myusername
If this works, you can make it permanently in fstab. I won't mount anything into a user's homedir, but it's your choice.

m0nk

Hi Dieter,

thanks four your reply. I tried the commands you provided, unfortunatelly I'm getting a few warnings and errors:

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<username>:~$ sudo mount -t cifs -o fmask=644,dmask=755,uid=<user_auf_win_pc>,credentials=/home/myusername/.smbcredentials //192.168.178.28/musik /home/myusername/Musik
WARNING: 'fmask' not expressed in octal.
WARNING: CIFS mount option 'fmask' is deprecated. Use 'file_mode' instead.
WARNING: 'dmask' not expressed in octal.
WARNING: CIFS mount option 'dmask' is deprecated. Use 'dir_mode' instead.
bad user name "<user_auf_win_pc>"


I can get around the first two warnings by using file_mode and dir_mode as suggested, however I'm still receiving a "Bad Username".
Isn't providing a uid a bit redundant anyway? After all it is stored in the .smbcredentials...?

Slightly confused Greetings,
MrMister

Please replace "<user_auf_win_pc>" with the contents of $USER ( or alternately the output of id -un )

Hello bcooksley,

I ran id -un and it responed with the username on my Linux machine. Using that name sovled the warning/error thing and the folder is being mounted correctly, however I still can not see any of my files in Amarok, just the folder structure.

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sudo mount -t cifs -o file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755,uid=<linux_username>,credentials=/home/<linux_username>/.smbcredentials //192.168.178.28/musik /home/<linux_username/Musik


The more I stare at this the dumber I feel I would really like to contribute something to the solution, but I don't see where I went wrong. And all my internet searches bring up a line pretty much like that and they seem to work for other people...

Thankful greetings,
MrMister

I gather if you browse to $HOME/Musik/ in a file manager the various music files are visible?

If so, you may simply need to ask Amarok to rescan the directory.

It seems I've solved the mistery... for some reason ffmpeg was not installed or it was buggy, I don't know, but since I reinstalled the package I can see MP3s in Amarok and play them.

Thank you for the help, if anything else should come up I'll be asking away

MrMister

the uid option leads to the files and folders are owned by the user "uid".
Just for info.

m0nk