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We are looking into it.

It's been more than half a year since you said you were "looking into it". Meanwhile a bunch of other's have complained about the same issue, and even let you know precisely how to fix it. Any hopes of seeing it fixed in the next decade or so?

I've been using VLC to play files on my local SMB shared folder, which requires a password and login.

In previous versions, the first time I selected the SMB in VLC, I would be asked for a username and password. But in the new version there is no such prompt. Instead, it just says the SMB is empty.