Totem will not play from a smb share

Thanks for your question. When you try to play the file in smb server this share is mounted (you have a line in /etc/ftab which mount it) or you use nautilus to open this share ??
I think, if you are in the second situation, you could use fusesmb found in universe. In a shell do:

$: sudo apt-get install fusesmb

Let me know, thanks many

I use nautilus to open a share.
FUSESMB does nothing 4M!

Any other suggestion? I really hate booting to Win just because a new computer has been conected to a computer and I would like to view some videos on it.

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

So if this question is expired does that mean that no sollution for this issue exist?

ashrack you can mount the smb share and then you will be able to open its files as if they where local - this is "normal procedure"

for example I've put this line in my /etc/fstab

//192.168.0.1/share_name /media/a_folder cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,dir_mode=0700,file_mode=0600,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

192.168.0.1 the ip of the windows pc with the share
share_name the name of the share
/media/a_folder a folder you as root have created - in there you'll find the files of the windows share
/root/.smbcredentials a file with the login name/pass for the share (see example below)
uid=1000,gid=1000 1000 is the id of the account I use to login to my pc (see how I found out the ID)

I login as ndemou so to find my ID I use:
grep ndemou /etc/passwd
ndemou:x:1000:1000:Nick Demou,,,:/home/ndemou:/bin/bash

this is what /root/.smbcredentials contains
sudo cat /root/.smbcredentials
username=winlogin
password=winpassword

Nick
I know that I can mount it. But this is ackward when someone just puts a computer on the network and U just want to browse thru his video collection.

there is this bug report:
"recent totem need "SMB protocol source plugin" to play from smb-share.
i don't know where can i find this plugin"
   -- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/119366

where the problem is reported as fixed

Hope it will be helpful