hi,

I finally configured samba and now i am able to access shared folders in windows box. but when i play a video first it saves it to a temp distination then plays it.

for large videos obviously is gonna take long is there any other way (player) to open the videos without saving it to temp?(e.g. in windows it plays it direct)

thank you

easiest way to do that would be to mount your shares temporarily on to some temporary folder.
mount -t smbfs <share location goes here> <mount location here>
e.g. mount -t smbfs ////192.168.0.1//share /mnt/temp
Then move to /mnt/temp or whatever place you mounted the share and play the file from there. even after doing this, xine has been found to still copy the file, if thats the case with your xine too then use a different player e.g. mplayer.

hi,

thanks for the reply i did what u said but i get this message and the temp is empty:

Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
mount : list mounted filesystems
mount -l : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
mount device : mount device at the known place
mount directory : mount known device here
mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
mount --move olddir newdir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say man 8 mount .

Oops! i almost forgot, windows takes the slashes opposite, just use this

mount -t smbfs \\\\192.168.0.1\\share /mnt/temp

The number of slashes has to be doubled because one is treated as an escape sequence..
Hope this solves it.

If you're using KDE, then one of the slickest/easiest ways to browse/mount SMB partitions is smb4k. It's about as close to Windows's "My Network Places" as you can get in Linux.