Comment 32 for bug 273294

Confirmed the workaround works on Karmic. If you access the share via 'guest' access it may require you to specify this when it requests the login details. I use user permissions and when entered the command asked for username, workgroup name and password, then mounted the drive (even though nautilus had already mounted it).

I'm not really agreeing with the fact that it's not a paper cut, since if a new user was migrating from Windows or setting up a dual-boot like the majority of new users, it's possible they would have a share with their music and would want to tell Rythmbox to look there. Since the SMB would already be available or can be setup this isn't a truly intuitive method since it would complain that a 'valid' share isn't accessible. Especially since Rythmbox is the default player. If this was not the default I'd agree with this invalidation. If I hadn't found a workaround, first I'd have looked for an alternative player, failing that I would have considered NOT using Ubuntu for this reason alone. I guess if I had never used a computer before (I think it should be assumed anyone who's used a computer has used or is using Windows due to bug#1) then I may agree, but I think they are very very rare.