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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201501091410.39304.lisi.re...@gmail.com
