burning files from samba share

[Andrej Marjan]

On March 29, 2010 11:45:15 am you wrote:
> Now that all of my media is on the network, I'm curious about burning
> those files to a DVD sometimes for sharing.
> 
> When I try to burn from a Samba share, I get an error that it is not
> supported. This is using the Nautilus utility for burning discs. Is
> there a better tool for this, or a method someone can point me to for
> this? I know it might be kinda slow, but it seems like my only option.
> 
> Thanks!

Try mounting the share, so all the SMB stuff is handled by the kernel instead 
of whatever userspace library Gnome uses. 

See the manpage for mount.cifs

Basic usage is:

mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt --verbose -o user=username 
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