Comment 9 for bug 609451

I also have this problem. xscreensaver gives "Directory dos not exist" on mounted SMB share.
Have tried making a link to the share and choose it, but "does not exist".
If I choose a local folder the local pictures works.

Running Ubuntu 12.04 x86 with gnome3 desktop.
Xscreensaver 5.15, 28-sep-2011 and the screensaver glslideshow.

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$ xscreensaver-getimage -verbose -directory /mnt/stora/Bilder root
xscreensaver-getimage: grabDesktopImages: True
xscreensaver-getimage: grabVideoFrames: False
xscreensaver-getimage: chooseRandomImages: True
xscreensaver-getimage: imageDirectory: /mnt/stora/Bilder
xscreensaver-getimage: grabbing desktop image

xscreensaver-getimage: window 0x0000015D root: 1 saver: 0 grab: 0 wait: 0.0
xscreensaver-getimage: 0x21 (TrueColor, depth: 24, cmap: default)

xscreensaver-getimage: grabbed 24 bit screen image to real root window.
xscreensaver-getimage: displaying 1920x1080 image at 0,0 in 1920x1080.

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$ xscreensaver-getimage -verbose -directory /mnt/stora/Bilder -images root
xscreensaver-getimage: grabDesktopImages: True
xscreensaver-getimage: grabVideoFrames: False
xscreensaver-getimage: chooseRandomImages: True
xscreensaver-getimage: imageDirectory: /mnt/stora/Bilder
xscreensaver-getimage: executing: xscreensaver-getimage-file --verbose --name /mnt/stora/Bilder
xscreensaver-getimage-file: 12998 files in cache
xscreensaver-getimage-file: /mnt/stora/Bilder/Geir Ole/4.2004/dykking/egypt 2004/alle bilder/IMG_0029.JPG: 2048 x 1536
xscreensaver-getimage: file does not exist: "/mnt/stora/Bilder/Geir Ole/4.2004/dykking/egypt 2004/alle bilder/IMG_0029.JPG"
xscreensaver-getimage: no image files found.
xscreensaver-getimage: drawing colorbars.

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How I mount the SMB share with fstab:

//stora/familylibrary /mnt/stora/ cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,uid=gok,gid=admin,dir_mode=0775,file_mode=0775,iocharset=utf8,codepage=unicode,unicode 0 0