Watching Video Over Network

Rhys · 12 Jul 2007 at 21:09

I have installed Mint Linux 3.0 on VMWare.

I have set it up so I can view folders on the host PC as if the virtual PC was networked to the VMWare PC.

I can see movies but they wont load. If I copy them onto the VMWare PC it works fine.

Why is this? Is this a Linux thing or a VMWare thing?

Thanks

.walls · 13 Jul 2007 at 08:25

Is this over samba shares?

Rhys · 13 Jul 2007 at 11:57

What I did

File->Connect to Server->Windows Share.

.walls · 13 Jul 2007 at 13:27

Yeah - I've got that problem with my current build - but as I don't use that functionality much, I couldn't be bothered fixing it!!

I know that it doesn't have to be like that, as it wasn't on a previous build. I reckon it's something to do with the samba client - but as I said, I've not looked into fixing it!

If you find out what's causing it, post here, cos I'd like to know [but atm, am too lazy to look into it!!]

.walls · 13 Jul 2007 at 13:36

Actually - I can't test just now - but does it make any difference if you mount the share to a folder?

Code:

smbmount //<servername>/<sharename> /<mountdirectory> -o username=mywindowsusername,password=mywindowspassword

leezer3 · 14 Jul 2007 at 11:59

Its a media player limitation

Mounting the samba share in a folder as per the poster above will fix it.

-Leezer-