When i open media from my NAS, the file i want to open is first copied completelyto my hard drive, and just then its starts playing..
Why it doesn't start immediately?

In windows, when i opened the same file, with the same player (VLC), there was almost no delay. And from Kubuntu its taking minutes before it starts playing.
I was looking in the man pages of VLC, and i installed an extra addon for streaming media but none of it helped me out.

Another thing i was wondering, how can i access my NAS from the Konsole?
I can find my NTFS partions, there in "media"
But i can't find my NAS.

KDE does not mount your NAS into the file system. If you want to be able to access your NAS through Konsole, you will need to mount it into the file system. Mounting it into the file system will also fix the complete file download issue as well.

Unfortunately each distribution does the mounting into the file system using their own tools, although it usually centers around altering /etc/fstab.

I've had good experiences with the SMB4K package. If you're looking for a GUI interface to mount CIFS or Samba shares, I'd encourage you to check it out.

bcooksley:

I don't know exactly what you mean with "altering /etc/fstab"
"/etc/fstab" is just a file in my Kubuntu system. Do I have to change something in there?

steveriley:
I'll try it out later when i'm home.
Is it possible to automaticlly mount Samba/NTFS shares using this program? Or do i have create a script that starts with system startup?

J.One wrote:I'll try it out later when i'm home.
Is it possible to automaticlly mount Samba/NTFS shares using this program? Or do i have create a script starts with system startup?

Yep. I'm using it for exactly that purpose: automatically mounting three NTFS shares when I boot my computer. They appear under ~/smb4k/ in the file system. Very handy.

Thanks for the tip!
Really usefull, i have one NTFS partition i would like to mount each time i boot up my system. And the same go's for my NAS.
The only problem is.. I don't know how it works!
I was using Windows for years, i'm lost..

J.One wrote:Thanks for the tip!
Really usefull, i have one NTFS partition i would like to mount each time i boot up my system. And the same go's for my NAS.
The only problem is.. I don't know how it works!
I was using Windows for years, i'm lost..

I'm away from my home computer at the moment. Later on I can look at my config and tell you how I got it set up. I had to fiddle with a few settings to get it to behave.

That would be great! Thanks for that..
I was going true the settings, trying different things, but it didn't work.
When i'm asked: "enter the path of the share"
I still have the intention to type: \\192.168.x.x\dnas. But this (offcource) is not right.

One thing that took me a while to figure out was that without a DNS server on my network, Linux computers can't locate Windows computers by name. So the first thing you need to do is add the NAS's name and IP address to your /etc/hosts file like this:

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192.168.nnn.nnn   name-of-machine

Then you can start configuring Smb4K. It's been a few weeks since I set mine up, so I'll just describe how mine is configured now.

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Shares
   select "Remount recently used shares on program start"   

Samba | Mounting
   File mask: 0777
   Directory mask: 0777
   Write access: read-write
   Advanced options
      select "Do no cache inode data"
      select "Do not use locking"
      deselect the others

Super User
   select both options


Now you should be able to navigate your shares on the Network Neighborhood tab and select the ones you want to mount.

I did all the settings like you suggested, and once my NAS is mounted, the files open instantly. So thats great!

However, my NTFS and NAS shares are not mounted when the program starts, although I checked the box "Remount recently used shares on program start"
I can see the directory's in my home directory but they are empty.
Any idea's?

That setting likely means you need to run "Smb4k" on system startup/user login. This can be done by dragging the shortcut to start the application from the menu into ~/.config/autostart/

J.One wrote:I did all the settings like you suggested, and once my NAS is mounted, the files open instantly. So thats great!

However, my NTFS and NAS shares are not mounted when the program starts, although I checked the box "Remount recently used shares on program start"
I can see the directory's in my home directory but they are empty.
Any idea's?

Wow. I'm actually a bit stumped here. When I configured Smb4K as I described, it set itself up to automatically remount on startup without any further intervention on my part. I looked through every "autostart" directory on my computer and can't find any reference to Smb4K. So now I'm actually a bit curious how it's working...?

Bcooksley,

The applications starts automaticlly, but the drives/Shares are not mounted.
And sometimes is asking if it can access the "KDE Wallet" (whatever that is, i don't have a clue)

Steveriley,

"I'm actually a bit curious how it's working...?"

Me to
I love the idea, but i think i'm missing something.

J.One wrote:And sometimes is asking if it can access the "KDE Wallet" (whatever that is, i don't have a clue)

KDE Wallet is a system service that keeps passwords in encrypted storage. I'm guessing you have a password on your NAS? Mine does. When I first configured Smb4K and set up my shares, Smb4K wanted to store the share passwords in the KDE Wallet, which I allowed.

Go ahead and let your Smb4K do the same thing. This could be why your auto remounts aren't working.

Thanks for clearing that. I was wondering what is was for a while now but didn't take the time to look it up, because there are still many other things that i have top figure out first.

And yes, my NAS has a password. And i allowed Smbk4 to access the KDE Wallet. But it didn't ask me directly after the installation, so maybe this has something to do with it, maybe i have to reintall it.