Network music
 

My daughter has an older IBM Thinkpad. 560X with a 300mhz and 128 ram. She is using SuSE 9.1 with KDE 3.2. She can play her music fine as long as it is on her local hard drive. When she tries to play from the network server nothing loads or plays. All network streaming is turned on and my sons laptop ( Toshiba 2.0g with 512 ram) using the same OS strams fine. All of her other networking functions without any problem. Is this a resource thing or is there something being overlooked?

David

Devil in the Details
 

I re-read your post a few times but I can not picture what is going on with the information you gave. When you say "network server", what is it serving? Do you have some type of audio streaming server running on it? If so the stream needs to be going to a multicast/unicast address that will include the clients. If it is multicast, then the client has to "join" the stream by entering the multicast address, if unicast , then the server has to send a separate stream to each client. If the network server is service files ( such as Samba for NFS file share ), then you need to test the laptop's connectivity to the server, to the file share, and finally make sure the end user has at least "read" access to the share and the files on the share to be able to play music from it.

To sum up the details that would help others assist you with your issue,:
1. How is the audio being 'served'? i.e network streaming server, file server, etc. ( please give the name of the app you are using to serve the audio.
2. What kind of networking are you using? i.e. TCP/IP, Netware, Appleshare, etc.
3. How are the clients connected to the server over the network? i.e. If file share, how are they accessing it? i.e. mount point, UNC, etc.
4. How are the clients playing ( or trying to play ) the audio? i.e. what application are they using...Window Media Player, VLC, mplayer...
5. What have you tried so far to troubleshoot the problem? How did it turn out? I.e. did you ping the server from the client, reboot the client , change network server settings, etc. and what results did you get?

With this kind of information, people can help you much more than with what you have given so far, and it is always better to give too much information than too little, as we can just discard extra info, but have to keep asking you for more information, which complicates things.