On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 17:08 -0500, Mauriat M wrote: > You could see if the mplayer binary links to libsmbclinet: > [mirandam@charon ~]$ ldd /usr/bin/mplayer | grep smb > > For example you should see something like: > libsmbclient.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsmbclient.so.0 (0x00150000) That's it - thanks. Unfortunately, the livna compiled version of mplayer doesn't have smb support built it. Sucks to be me. I'll have to look at rebuilding the rpm with smb support. I don't know if livna provides source rpms - hopefully they do. I'll report back here if I can all of this sorted out. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 22:46:48 up 9 days, 8:25, 1 user, load average: 0.26, 0.24, 0.22