[ltp] Ubuntu Breezy and Network Shares

[Paul RIVIER]

André Wyrwa wrote:

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>Hi,
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>I'm having my X20 setup as a media player fetching files from samba
>shares. It was a Hoary installation before i upgraded to Breezy.
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>Now i can't see any network shares (non-mounted) in the file requesters
>anymore (while i have them on my desktop). Trying to open them manually
>by specifying the smb://... url in the open location requester leads to
>a message that it can't be displayed because it is not local.
>
>I think the file requesters use gnome-vfs so it seems that gnome-vfs has
>a limitation here which it didn't have in Hoary. Does anyone have a
>clue? The same experience? Different experiences? Is there a hidden
>setting somewhere?
>
>André.
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mmmh ... does not seem to be a thinkpad-specific problem ;)
Look in ubuntuforums.org for this kind of help, it is faster.
Anyway, have you tried dedicated services like gnump3d for 
media-serving. I personnaly prefer it over samba (which is pretty broken 
in breezy by the way).

Good luck

Paul Rivier