One partition on NAS went haywire for openSUSE

English Network/Internet
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@crmrhm: A bit more experimenting…I get ‘Invalid Argument’ reported in the VLC logs when attempting to play content from my Windows 10 shares (where no password is explicitly set). If I first start VLC from a terminal with the following…

vlc --smb-user "user" --smb-pwd "pwd"

(* In my case any username/password combo works as my Windows shares are configured for “Everyone” access for test purposes)

…then if I subsequently play a video by clicking on a (Windows share) file via Dolphin, VLC will play it happily. It seems to me that it is as a direct consequence of the way VLC attempts to access the media (depending on whether the media requires authentication or not perhaps).

I got some insight into this by following this thread…
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/22151

It will be interesting to see if this helps with your situation.

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I had come across that thread. too. I’m now convinced that the router hardware was failing. In the past few days, it dropped wifi connections a fair amount, which was new. The new router arrived yesterday afternoon and is installed and running. With the new router, everything now behaves as it did with the old router until a few weeks ago. With Dolphin, click any type file on the router’s USB drive, and the appropriate application opens it.

It remains a complete mystery to me why Windows 10 never had trouble accessing the drive on the old router, but several Linux distributions failed.

Thanks for all the time you spent on this.

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Thanks for the update. Good to know that your new router is providing samba shares as expected.