Bug#757968: vlc: Cannot play video from Samba share

Pierre Rudloff contact at rudloff.pro
Thu Aug 21 20:58:33 UTC 2014


It works, thanks! Too bad there isn't any UI for that.

Regards,

Le 21/08/2014 22:48, Sebastian Ramacher a écrit :
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
>
> On 2014-08-12 22:16:55, Pierre Rudloff wrote:
>> Package: vlc
>> Version: 2.0.3-5+deb7u1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> When I try to play a video from a Samba share on another computer on my
>> network, I get this error:
>> Your input can't be opened:
>> VLC is unable to open the MRL 'smb://bmo.local/videos/test/test.mp4'. Check the
>> log for details.
>>
>> The console also outputs this:
>> [0x25d6658] main input error: open of `smb://bmo.local/videos/test/test.mp4'
>> failed
>> [0x2528c08] access_smb access error: open failed for
>> 'bmo.local/videos/test/test.mp4' (Permission denied)
> So, do you need to be authenticated to access this Samba share? If
> that's the case the workaround from [1] should work.
>
> Cheers
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602985#15



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