I was facing this bug as well. mplayer would get stop playback at exactly 5 minutes which is the same as the default value for keepalive interval used by smbd on my karmic installation. As a workaround, if I add "keepalive = 0" in /etc/samba/smb.conf on the server, mplayer does not disconnect any more. If I understand it correctly, the smb servers sends netbios keepalive packets after every 5 minutes and the client should respond, so maybe the bug is that the client is not responding correctly? On setting keepalive to 0, the server does not attempt to send any keepalive packets. This worked for me. Hope it helps!
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