Samba protected shares, cant open video files.

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#1

Hi,
I used opensuse ages ago (version10+). Used it for about 2-3 years. I had to migrate back to windows, as it was too much hassle to get things working properly.
Decided to give another go, installed 13.1 64bit KDE. KDE feels really polished and doesn’t crash as it used to. I got optimus and nvidia working with help of bumblebee (somebody needs to make it easier to do)…
Tried to enable Samba, but this one was not quite easy… Luckily after couple hours of browsing, I found Swerdna’s website (can’t believe he is still here).
Followed steps on Swerdna’s website and got shares working. To be honest I am very disappointed that after so many years there is no gui/simple way of setting all up… Anyway, I can see devices on network, open shares thru dolphin. But one thing I can’t figure out:
I have win7 password protected folder. I navigate to that folder, it asks me for username and password. I enter them and can see whats inside. I can open pdf’s, documents, but I can’t open video files from that folder?
Both Kaffeine and VLC give similar errors : Your input can’t be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'smb://…'

Google again and found that vlc needs username and password to play file? Now does it needs my opensuse username/pass or my win7 user/pass?
If it needs win7 user/pass, then why vlc/kaffeine can’t use the one I entered in dolphin as was accessing folder?

I mean in windows I enter folder user/pass and that’s all, any files open fine, videos play fine remotely. No need in any additional tweaks.
This all makes me think that opensuse is still in stone age… My android phone plays network videos with no hassle, tv’s same, so how come Opensuse is behind all this?
Any help would be great.

#2

I had some time today to fiddle around with samba and yes vlc does work if you enter user/pass in input/codecs smb section.
This is a bit annoying coz what if I have more shares and all them have different usernames and passwords? Is there any method to simplify all this?
There is no option on Kaffeine with smb like on vlc?

#3

wow no answer whatsoever… Years ago at-least somebody would point to right direction… No wonder suse dropped on distrowatch rotfl!
Seems like suse community gets smaller with every day…

#4

Sorry, I did write an answer two days ago, but forgot to submit it because I was in a hurry.

Here it is:

Well, it didn’t crash for me back then…

Tried to enable Samba, but this one was not quite easy… Luckily after couple hours of browsing, I found Swerdna’s website (can’t believe he is still here).
Followed steps on Swerdna’s website and got shares working. To be honest I am very disappointed that after so many years there is no gui/simple way of setting all up…

Hm?
You can use YaST to setup shares, or you can even share folders in KDE by right-clicking on them and selecting “Properties”, similar to Windows.
But your problem is not creating a share, but accessing one I understand.

Anyway, I can see devices on network, open shares thru dolphin. But one thing I can’t figure out:
I have win7 password protected folder. I navigate to that folder, it asks me for username and password. I enter them and can see whats inside. I can open pdf’s, documents, but I can’t open video files from that folder?
Both Kaffeine and VLC give similar errors : Your input can’t be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'smb://…'

Google again and found that vlc needs username and password to play file? Now does it needs my opensuse username/pass or my win7 user/pass?
If it needs win7 user/pass, then why vlc/kaffeine can’t use the one I entered in dolphin as was accessing folder?

It needs the share’s username and password.
Dolphin and vlc (or Kaffeine) are completely different applications. Dolphin just passes the URL to VLC when you try to open it, but apparently not the username/password (would be a security issue probably).
If the application in question does not support shares, dolphin copies the file to your hard disk first, that’s why it works with other files/applications.
But VLC and Kaffeine do support smb:// themselves, so that’s why you got that problem.

Better mount the share, then every program can access the files, even if they don’t support opening files on a share.
You can do this by running this f.e.:

sudo mount //HOST/SHARE mountpoint -o username=xxx,password=yyy

Or use a graphical application to browse and mount the shares, like smb4k:
http://software.opensuse.org/package/smb4k
You should install the version from the [noparse]KDE:Extra[/noparse] repo (click on “Show possibly unstable versions”) as that is a newer version.