I am running the following...

Amarok 2.3.2
KDE 4.5.1
Kubuntu 10.10

I have all of my music files stored on a Buffalo Linkstation (smb://ls-gl4a7/Share/Music).

My problem is that I can't work out how to get Amarok to scan these files. I can navigate to individual tracks on the drive and play them but would like to be able to see the whole collection, create playlists etc.

Any help much appreciated.

How have you mounted the NAS? If it is mounted into the file system, open Amarok > Settings > Configure Amarok > Collection, and tick the folder where your NAS is mounted into there.

bcooksley wrote:How have you mounted the NAS? If it is mounted into the file system, open Amarok > Settings > Configure Amarok > Collection, and tick the folder where your NAS is mounted into there.

I guess it's not mounted as I can't see the NAS when I do as above. I will go and try to find out how to mount it. Thanks.

http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Samba

This should help you get started. I have a DLink DNS 323 that I mounted in fstab and Amarok will recognize the collection.
Using: (all on one line of course)
//dlink-nas/Volume_1/Music /mnt/dlink cifs uid=username,gid=groupuser,guest,file_mode=0444,dir_mode=0555 0 0

On boot I always see this error:

mount error(101): Network is unreachable
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
mountall: mount /mnt/dlink [423] terminated with status 32

I will continue researching the proper way to mount and keep checking this thread.