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EDIT: SOLVED - See below Problem description: Streaming a .mkv file from my NAS (running Windows Home Server 2011, so a Samba share) doesn't work. In Dragon Player I just see what looks like an audio waveform. In VLC player it says it is unable to open the MRL (then gives a link to it). I have logging on in VLC, pointing to a .txt file in /home, with Verbosity set to 1 - but nothing appearing in the log. Attempted fixes: Tried copying the file from my NAS to the desktop and playing it in Dragon/VLC (it works fine in both when I do this and play it locally). Recent changes: Yes and no, this is my first time setting up a linux VM. -- Operating system: Linux Mint 17.3, KDE 64-bit. Using Dolphin File Manager to browse to the Samba share on my NAS (using Administrator credentials). This is running in Virtual Box 5 on my Windows machine (W7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1). Have allocated 2Gb of RAM and 25Gb of hard drive space to the VM. System specs: Sandy Bridge core i5 2500 (3.3GHz), 8Gb DDR3, Radeon 6950 (1Gb VRAM). 256Gb Crucial M4 SSD. Location: Australia I have Googled and read the FAQ: Yes. Googling has just turned up people having trouble accessing Samba shares and that sort of thing. I'm a lifelong DOS/Windows user, buy am toying with the idea of switching to Linux as my primary OS when I build a new gaming rig later this year. The idea of setting up a VM is to see if I can get it to replicate the basic stuff I do day to day - web browsing/email/streaming media from my NAS. modeski fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Jan 20, 2016 |
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Jan 19, 2016 12:30
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Have you tried using Super User Mode in Dolphin when you access the NAS share? It might simply be a matter of the User account not having sufficient permissions to access the file over Samba.
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Jan 20, 2016 01:05
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I tried mounting the share from the command line first (after a suggestion from a friend), and that seemed to do the trick; I can successfully stream media to Dragon/VLC after mounting it. Just need to figure out making it automatically mount on boot now. EDIT: Figured out automounting now (see http://blog.zwiegnet.com/linux-server/mount-windowscifs-share-on-linux-mint/) modeski fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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