Issues with SMB Share

I'm unable to preview media content such as photos, videos and documents such as pdfs and word documents over an smb share.

RealDishwashOP•2/12/24, 1:37 AM

I'm also unable to play videos over smb using haruna or vlc

RealDishwashOP•2/12/24, 1:45 AM

Works fine using a windows client, I'm able to view PDFs and play videos

RealDishwashOP•2/12/24, 1:50 AM

The only documents I can view properly on bazzite are small things like text and markdown files

HikariKnight•2/12/24, 12:55 PM

not all applications support this in the same way they do on windows because the smb path implementation is different depending on DEs
the best way to do this (and have almost all programs support it) would be to mount the share into a folder using something like fstab

//192.168.10.22/storage/Music /home/hk/Music cifs uid=0,credentials=/path/to/credentialsfile,iocharset=utf8,vers=3.0,noperm,_netdev 0 0

//192.168.10.22/storage/Music /home/hk/Music cifs uid=0,credentials=/path/to/credentialsfile,iocharset=utf8,vers=3.0,noperm,_netdev 0 0

credentials file can contain the username and password in this format

user=myusername
password=mypassword
domain=mydomain

user=myusername
password=mypassword
domain=mydomain

NOTE: haruna managed to play my music files with the path smb://192.168.10.22/storage/Music/file.mp3smb://192.168.10.22/storage/Music/file.mp3 when i opened from dolphin, but pdfs did not work in okular.
this is a per application issue

HHikariKnight not all applications support this in the same way they do on windows because the...

RealDishwashOP•2/13/24, 1:41 AM

can i sidestep this if i just use nfs? i'm fine wth just hosting smb for the windows clients and nfs for the linux devices

RealDishwashOP•2/13/24, 1:54 AM

ok wait i can get video playback working using haruna if i use a local connection instead of through tailscale

RealDishwashOP•2/13/24, 1:54 AM

but yeah pdfs through okular still don't work

RRealDishwash can i sidestep this if i just use nfs? i'm fine wth just hosting smb for the win...

HikariKnight•2/13/24, 6:49 AM

Not if it is the application not supporting how the de does protocols.

Gnome kinda works around this using gvfs and does a temp local mount for you.

Kde uses a completely different way (not sure exactly what they do, I just noticed when opening remote files in gnome, the file would have a local path through gvfs)

©TriMoon™•2/13/24, 1:00 PM

"Say NO to fstabfstab solutions... "
By @©TriMoon™

These fine How-To's might be interesting read for both of you:

It's MUCH safer to use systemd-units instead of fidling with fstabfstab...

Because if you make a mistake, only that mount will fail, but your system will stay bootable...
Plus you can have automount/dismount when not used, which is not possible with fstabfstab configs.

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