Re: Unable to join the Debian User Forum; appears that all IPs are being black-listed.
Sorry, Wayne. I have done it yet again. Clicked "reply" in the Debian list.
I should have pressed "l" and replied to the list, not you personally.
:-(
Lisi
Hi, Wayne,
Welcome to Debian! Good choice! And also welcome to the list.
On Friday 09 January 2015 06:07:52 Wayne Hartell wrote:
> Thanks. I'm sure to violate some conventions here in reply format or what
> have you. Just let me know if I do and I'll try to remedy in future.
You have a basic underlying problem: Your email client does not quote
correctly. I had a look. You are running Outlook. All I can say is: bad
luck! But your quoting is a bit of a mess and I tried to sort it out for my
reply, but it is too early in the morning (I am on GMT and had a late
night.). So we all just have to be patient. Most of us have been there,
done that and got the T-shirt. There are lots of super Linux email clients
out there.
Once you are on a civilised email client, bottom posting, or even better,
interleaving, is preferred. With suitable trimming, of course. (Which I am
not very good at myself.)
[snip]
> Now, the problem [snip] is that
> when I attempt to play an mp3 file using vlc, where that mp3 file is
> located on a password protected Windows share, vlc fails to play the file.
>
> "VLC is unable to open the MRL" (I have more detailed debug output if
> needed).
>
> Now, I have tried a newer version of VLC from the backports (2.1.2 I
> think), and it did not help.
>
> The work around is to edit the smb://<host>/<path>/<file>.mp3 to be
> smb://user:password@<host>/<path>/<file>.mp3
>
> When I do this, it will work, but I have to do it for every file I add to
> the play list.
>
> Rhythm Box appears to work just fine.
[snip]
>
> Anyway, I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my post. This may
> seem a little trivial,
If you use vlc frequently and it does this every time, that is not trivial!!
I can't really be any help at all, since I don't use vlc and have no Windows
in the house so don't use Samba, but you only had one reply and it didn't
feel very welcoming.
> but it's my first serious foray into Linux, just a
> couple of days old, and rather than run from issues I want to learn not
> only how to tackle the issues, but the processes that go along with Debian
> in general.
:-))
Lisi
> Wayne Hartell wrote:
> > I'm a new Debian/Linux user and brand new to this mailing list.
>
> Welcome.
>
> > To that end I have been tinkering with various Linux distros and I
> > have found a reproducible issue in Wheezy ...
>
> Please report it as a bug.
>
> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/
>
> > that I wish to discuss on the Debian
> > user Forums, but I appear to be unable to register. Every IP I try I
> > appears to be black-listed. I even attempted using TOR and those IPs
> > were also black-listed. The problem is I can't post to the forums to
> > tell them I can't register. I can't find anything on Google about this
>
> problem.
>
> I for one don't like web forums. Fortunately most of the real activity
> takes place on the mailing lists. You have subscribed to this mailing list
> and so don't need any of the web forums. Simply discuss the problem here.
>
> > If there is a better way to report this issue please let me know.
>
> Please discuss your problem here. What problem are you having? What
> reproducible issue have you found in Wheezy?
>
> Bob
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