> 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.
Thank you. So far I am liking what I see. > 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. Yes, you're right I am using Outlook since I've signed up to this list on a virtual machine that is configured for taking on the road for my work. I haven't yet taken a look at Evolution and others e-mail clients, but I fear that I'll be stuck on Outlook for a little while longer, until I convince myself to make a permanent switch. Hopefully this is a little better in terms of what is expected on the list. I edited a couple of settings to try to improve things. > 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.) I'm sure I'll take a while to look anything but amateur. > > 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. Agreed; it's not trivial if that's what you are trying to do. Right now listening to music is not high on my agenda; it just jumped out at me as something that should probably work off the bat, especially when there seems to be no other samba related issues. I may end up just logging the issue when I am confident I understand the process and am not just wasting other people's time. Cheers, Wayne. > > 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 -- 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/005701d02c1f$d4318d90$7c94a8b0$@ozemail.com.au
