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amarok package

smb support (aka network drive)

Asked by bricin

Like many people I keep my music files on a network drive. I read the question at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amarok/+question/3714 and this is a workaround. I know I can mount the smb location (although I still haven't figured out how to mount the location as read-write. Or rather it's read/write for root, but not for user). Amarok then works like a charm.

But other players work fine with smb. I'd even be happy sharing the files via ftp. Gnome appears to work really well with both of those protocols.

Any help? Is this a limitation of Amarok that can be looked at?

Thanks so much. I truly enjoy this player, I tried switching to rhythmbox for the smb support but there are to many Amarok features I missed.

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Paul Bartell (paul-bartell) said : 		#1

in the location part, you can try putting the following to connect to a samba server:

user:password@server

Replacing each with your username, password, and server.

Well, I hope this helps.

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Paul Bartell (paul-bartell) said : 		#2

Sorry, I didnt look at the link to the other post. Try mounting the samba share as it says on the answer that you linked to. and then running the following command

sudo chmod 777 /path/to/mountpoint

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AndreK (andre-k) said : 		#3

I am missing SMB support too, is it suggested wherever it should ?

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