accessing network

[Ocean20]

I have Raspbian. My system at home has a wireless router/modem with four ethernet ports or switches I guess. A network drive is attached to the router with an ethernet cable. I can access the network drive over wireless on my WIN7 laptop because I mapped the drive. I can also enter the IP address of the drive into the address window on an internet browser and it then uses Flash to access the drive and can of course ping the drive from the laptop. I have a desktop running Ubuntu and can access the network drive on that PC going through file manager in the Ubuntu GUI. Before I installed Raspbian on the RPi I had Debian Squeeze and could access the network drive by going File Manager. I could ping the drive when using Debian but could not access it by putting the IP address in an internet browser address window because there was no Flash support.

With Raspbian I cannot access the network drive through file manager. In file manager I click on "go" in the tool bar then click on "Network drives" then I get a pop up window that is headed "error" and the window says "operation not supported". What do I need to do to access the drive. I know its IP address but can't use a browser to access it because there is no support for flash.

[came]

I installed the gvfs-backends:

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sudo apt-get install gvfs-backends

After that I could access my network drive from the file manager.

[Ocean20]

Hey "came", I have been away for a few days and when I came back I installed the package that you suggested and it worked. Now I can see the network drives! How the hell do you know this stuff? I installed VLC and it plays videos( but no sound) if the file is on the pi memory card or on a USB drive attached directly to the pi but displays an error message if I try to play a video from the network drive. How do I get sound to work and how can I play a video from the network drive (preferably with sound too)? I have USB speakers plugged into a powered hub and the hub is connected to the pi, the audio plug from the speakers appears to be the right sort for the socket on the pi. Maybe you can offer some suggestions.

It never ceases to amaze me that other people know so many answers. Thank you.

[ghans]

If you aren't afraid of the command-line i would suggest omxplayer.
AFAIK it is still the only media player which is properly accelerated.
(Else you have to wait till all other players are made to use acceleration by a benevolent soul )


ghans

[Ocean20]

Thanks Ghans. The CLI is ok for me. I grew up with DOS and did some BASIC and Fortran years ago. Not too good with Linux but the worst that could happen is that I need to reflash the memory card and start again. Not a problem. I read somewhere in the sound trouble shooting area that the config file should be changed to make sound play thru the HDMI connection but that won't work for me cos the monitor doesn't have any sound capabilities cos it isn't a TV, just a plain dumb LED 20 monitor. Will keep trying and that is half the fun

[Gam]

Hi!. I need help to make my Pi see the network drive on my home network. If I put the drive IP address in the browser the Pi can see the drive and I can access it but whole process is very slow. I have already installed the gvfs-backends as was suggested in this forum, yet everytime I try to access the Network Drive through the file manager it says operation not supported. What am i missing? Thanks.

[Sinon]

an easy way to use omxplayer is when you right click and open with command line enter "sudo omxplayer" then you can just right click on things and it adds a sudo omxplayer thingy