Playing music from server

**PwrdByAMD2** · 11-14-2005

I want to be able to play music from my server (Ubuntu) on my desktop (Ubuntu). If I open it in XMMS it acts as if it is playing, but it's not. Is there a way to stream music like this?

**lakerdonald** · 11-14-2005

I assume you have the remote server's music directory mounted somehow on your local system?
Can XMMS play local files alright?

**PwrdByAMD2** · 11-14-2005

Yes, XMMS can play local files. I didn't have the server mounted, I was just going through my network connections. I'm still a newb, although I am (slowly) learning.

I modified my /etc/fstab to include my server directory, but it says it can't display the contents of the folder.

**lakerdonald** · 11-14-2005

Which file sharing scheme are you using? NFS? Samba?

**PwrdByAMD2** · 11-14-2005

I'm using Samba.

**lakerdonald** · 11-14-2005

Did you actually *mount* it first?

**PwrdByAMD2** · 11-14-2005

No, I just went to Places>Network Servers>Windows Network>Server.

**lakerdonald** · 11-15-2005

What does:

Code:

mount

say?

**PwrdByAMD2** · 11-15-2005

/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
tmpfs on /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=10M,mode=0755)

**lakerdonald** · 11-15-2005

Then you don't actually have the share mounted.

Code:

man smbmount

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