Gnome samba share handling does not work...

[stiffmaster]

I'm trying to play videos over samba, nothing fancy. I open nautilus double click on the file and it download who knows what at 60 KB/s on the network and nerver start playback ... And the worst part is, that if I browse to the ~/.gvfs/share on server/ (which is the gvfs mountpoint for my share) and double click, well it plays just fine ?!? Can anyone please explain me how I can fix this?

I was thinking of replacing the totem executable by a script that would parse the parameter and change smb://server/share/file by ~/.gvfs/share on server/file but lets face it... This is a very ugly patch. I mean samba has been around forever. This should work out of the box right?!

[stiffmaster]

Well since I got no answers I went ahead and built the actual script that replace smb:// with a link to the gvfs file system and now everything works great ..

Here for those interested:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

################################################## ######
# This script replace smb:// urls to use gnome gvfs #
# You can now play videos using nautilus double click!!#
# #
# By Steve Garon #
################################################## ######

#Initialise arguments
my $home = $ENV{'HOME'};
my $file = "";
my $path = "";
my $executable = "totem.bin";
my $checkgvfs = 0;

#Check all arguments
foreach $num (0 .. $#ARGV){
#Check if this is a samba link
if ($ARGV[$num] =~ m/^smb:\/\/(\w+)\/(\w+)(\/.+)/){
#Change the path to use gvfs
$path = "$home/.gvfs/".$2."\\ on\\ ".$1;
$file = $path.$3;
$file = "file://".$file;
$checkgvfs = 1;
}
else {
#Don't Change the arguments cause as far as I know everything else works
$file = $ARGV[$num];
}
}

#Check the GVFS mount point to see if it exist
if ($checkgvfs==1){
#if doesnt exist
unless(-e $path){
#unmount gvfs mount point and restart fuse deamon
system("/bin/fusermount -u ~/.gvfs &");
system("/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-fuse-daemon -d ~/.gvfs &");
}
}

#Start totem with the passed arguments
exec $executable." ".$file;

NOTES:
(1) You have to move /usr/bin/totem to /usr/bin/totem.bin
(2) You have to put the script as /usr/bin/totem

PS.: If you do have other Ideas, fell free to share!