Hi Wayne, 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. I see you have already exchanged mail concerning one of those things. :-) There are 2,000+ subscribers on this mailing list. If you could imagine a town hall meeting with 2,000+ physical people in the room all with voices you can imagine how difficult it can be to keep discussion efficient. That is why trimming excess words is so important. It makes it easier for people to read and understand the message. If they can read and understand then you are much more likely to receive a high quality reply in return. > With respect to reporting the issue as a bug I started down that path using > Reportbug, but noticed that a similar issue (not quite the same, or maybe I > just didn't understand it fully), so I wanted to discuss it first. Thanks > for providing that opportunity. Please feel welcome to discuss problems such as you have found on this mailing list. We are mostly all simple users of the Debian system. A few are developers. Have some patience. You may get answers or help that is better or worse on different days. > It does work in other Linux distros that I have tried. If it works anywhere then it should be possible to learn why and/or why not and to transfer that knowledge. The other distro may have done something unique and special there to make it work. The task is then to figure this out and make it available in Debian. > "VLC is unable to open the MRL" (I have more detailed debug output if > needed). > ... > The work around is to edit the smb://<host>/<path>/<file>.mp3 to be > smb://user:password@<host>/<path>/<file>.mp3 That makes sense to me. With the username and password it can then access the media. > When I do this, it will work, but I have to do it for every file I add to > the play list. I understand that can be quite the pain. :-( > Rhythm Box appears to work just fine. How would Rhythm Box know what your smb username and password would be? > I'm not overly concerned about the issue which is why I wanted to discuss it > before I submitted any official bug (that would obviously be low priority). > I noticed Debian bug #602985 appears quite similar (it's about getting VLC > to prompt for smb credentials), but I'm not sure if it's exactly the same. > > Anyway, I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my post. This may > seem a little trivial, 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. I don't have any knowledge of either of the two areas needed. I don't know about smb shares. I don't know about vlc using remote media through smb shares. Sorry I can't help there. And I don't see other help on this issue. (At least not yet). I suggest that you post a new message to the mailing list. (I will be specific about it being a NEW message. If you reply to any mailing list message then your reply will be threaded below it. Since Outlook does not handle message threads most Outlook users don't realize that replying to start a new message causes threading problems. That creates a situation known as thread stealing or thread hijacking. To avoid that simply start a new message every time you have a new topic.) I suggest that you post a new message to the mailing list. Pick a good short concise subject. In this case I would definitely mention both VLC and SMB shares and password in the subject. There is no right answer but just to get the thought processes going I will suggest something like: VLC password in SMB shares URL? You want to attract the attention of people who are knowledgeable about those things. It is in your interest to choose the subject to make it clear to those people so that they will choose to read your message. This current thread is not good because those people not interested in web forums have already skipped over it. Remember that there are 2,000+ people on the list. Meaning that there are a lot of postings. Not every posting will interest everyone. At some point everyone is going to be skipping a lot of messages. Connecting you and them together needs good subject lines. And also good editor skills of trimming out unneeded excess quoting. Be brutal with removing excess quotes! Personally I would rather see no previous quoted material rather than bad full quoting. Want to see what the message looks like to other people? Take a look at it in the mailing list archive. If it is hard for you to read then it will be hard for other people to read too. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/01/msg00288.html Contrast that to this message in the archive. I have brutally trimmed the quotes to just the points to which I am replying. [🔎] 20150109151004514416184.NoCcsPlease@bob.proulx.com">https://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 20150109151004514416184.NoCcsPlease@bob.proulx.com Include error messages verbatim. Include them as text. (Another bad thing often seen is when people try to post images of the text of the error message. Shudder! The plain text can be searched for and quoted. Always post just the plain text.) Give it a go. Good luck! Bob
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