Hi All, Apparently, mplayer can play files on a smb share without the file system being mounted. I've tried it, but mplayer keeps telling me: "no stream found to handle url ...". So, either I'm typing the command incorrectly, or something else is screwed. Here's what I'm entering on my Fedora Core 7 box (samba is running on a CentOS 5 server): mplayer smb://user:password@server/media/videos/misc/blah.wmv I can play the video just fine if I mount the smb file system. What's wrong? Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 16:32:37 up 9 days, 2:11, 1 user, load average: 0.59, 0.59, 0.48