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.

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Rhythmbox can not use smb:// as library location
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273294
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