Cannot play files over samba share on MATE 15.04

Question

When I try to open video files from my home server I get the error:

VLC is unable to open the MRL

I have never had this issue before. Opening internet RMTP streams works fine and firewall is disabled.

Thanks for any help

score 10 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 11 '18 at 19:57

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A year later... I just discovered that VLC does not use whatever connection the desktop supplies, whether it's Gnome or KDE. It creates its own using credentials defined in the settings:

Tools > Preferences

Show settings: All

Input / Codecs > Access Modules > SMB

Thanks to Joris for the information.

If it's missing install a plugin:

apt-get install vlc-plugin-samba

edited Feb 11 '18 at 19:57

Elder Geek

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answered May 08 '16 at 18:28

savedario

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Thank you, a more meaningful error message might be something for them to consider... – Adam Plocher Nov 01 '16 at 18:39
FYI link is dead – Elder Geek Feb 11 '18 at 19:54
@ElderGeek: I assume you fixed it, because it seems to work now. Thanks. – savedario Feb 12 '18 at 01:27

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 02 '18 at 18:27

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according to this: Question on Network Drives | Ubuntu MATE Community you need to install the 'vlc-plugin-samba'. Because it is not installed by default. What a mess! That did the trick here, but I also upgraded to vlc 3.0, because I thought this would help, but it didn't. Please let me know if it will work if you just install the plugin.

With kind regards Mangnoppa

edited Mar 02 '18 at 18:27

answered May 18 '15 at 17:17

Kev Inski

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I can confirm now that just installing vlc-plugin-samba with sudo apt-get install vlc-plugin-samba is working fine. – Kev Inski Nov 13 '15 at 18:00

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 01 '17 at 19:14

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if it is a password protected share, you'll have to mount it with cifs:

sudo apt install cifs-utils
mkdir /mnt/share_name

then add this line to your /etc/fstab :

//server_ip/share_name        /mnt/share_name    cifs    username=user,password=pass,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm      0       0

and run

mount -a

play it from /mnt/share_name

edited Oct 01 '17 at 19:14

dessert

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answered Jan 07 '16 at 12:13

Stăuceanu Radu Gabriel

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 04 '18 at 00:11

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Once you mounted the samba Share with nemo, you can call vlc like this:

vlc /run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=YOURSERVER,share=YOURPATH

In this approach the authentification is transparently managed within gnome, which allows to save the password in your keychain.

answered Oct 04 '18 at 00:11

alfonx

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wow, this is so much easier; I've tried the SMB plugin method, but after configuring it, I couldn't find how to actually open the share /shrug – Marcus Jun 08 '19 at 12:31

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered May 24 '18 at 14:30

I was having trouble getting VLC in Ubuntu to play a windows share, nothing would be displayed if I navigated to the folder. What worked for me was as above activating the smb pluginl and then using add multiple files, I was able to drag and drop my entire music share into VLC, and it played perfectly.

user249654 · Answer 6 · 2019-12-22T02:32:40.100

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i set in smb.conf

min protocol = SMB1

max protocol = SMB1

and works fine

edited Dec 22 '19 at 02:32

answered Dec 16 '19 at 00:55

user249654

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score 0 · Answer 7 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

In Ubuntu 15.04, 15.10 there is a confirmed bug in the gvfs package. This causes any mounts made no to show up in /run/user//gvfs.

Where can I find the mount point for SMB shares in 13.04?

VLC uses these mounts to access and play files. If the mounts are not available, vlc uses the samba-plugin to create a connection.

A workaround is to kill the gvfsd, so a new deamon will be created when the files are accessed.

killall --user $(id -un) gvfsd

Cannot play files over samba share on MATE 15.04

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