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Update - this holiday weekend, VideoLAN on my iPad has worked to connect to files on my PC, but each time I connect, it asks me to log in. No other app like VideoLAN requires this. Also, I still have my questions about “prefer SMB 1” and how to make swipe right (or left) advance (or regress) the vid...

  fkuehne - seems to be working! Finally. EDIT - ►► The second time I turned on this beta VideoLAN in my iPad, it almost got stuck in a Login loop. It prompted me for my PC's user name and password login over and over. I have a user name on my PC, of course, but my Win 10 Pro 64-bit PC does NOT have...

Fkuehne - sorry for delay. Where do I go to try the beta on my iPad? Thanks.

On both my iPad and iPhone, VideoLAN still cannot connect to my Win 7 and 10 PCs using SMB2. Problem not fixed for over a year.
My home PCs do not require passwords to log on. However, other video apps on my iPad have no problem connecting to my PCs.

cee - don't have a file server. My videos are on my home PC, which connects to a router by ethernet, which connects to Verizon FIOS. My iPad connects to the same router by WiFi. So both my home PC and my iPad are on the same LAN. My home PC is Win 10 Pro 64-bit (currently version 1909), and I set it...

cee - it's not likely that non-tech users like myself can duplicate what you have done. But really impressive!!!
What do you recommend for us?
It's still a shame that VLC has so badly screwed this up and left us with security risks, when it worked 14 months ago.

 
Over eight months, more than 23,000 views of this thread, other apps have no problem with SMB2, and STILL VLC HAS NOT FIXED THIS.

Something is wrong in France.
 

Just got a message on my iPad from VLC "Developer" that SMB2 has been working for "quite some months". No, it doesn't. I just tried again, and VideoLan for iPad will NOT connect to the Win 10 Pro 64-bit PC (version 1909) on my home LAN using SMB2. VideoLan will connect ONLY with ...

Just got a message on my iPad from VLC "Developer" that SMB2 has been working for "quite some months". No, it doesn't. I just tried again, and VideoLan for iPad will NOT connect to the Win 10 Pro 64-bit PC (version 1909) on my home LAN using SMB2. VideoLan will connect ONLY with ...

Just got a message on my iPad from VLC "Developer" that SMB2 has been working for "quite some months". No, it doesn't. I just tried again, and VideoLan for iPad will NOT connect to the Win 10 Pro 64-bit PC (version 1909) on my home LAN using SMB2. VideoLan will connect ONLY with ...

Just got a message on my iPad from VLC "Developer" that SMB2 has been working for "quite some months". No, it doesn't. I just tried again, and VideoLan for iPad will NOT connect to the Win 10 Pro 64-bit PC (version 1909) on my home LAN using SMB2. VideoLan will connect ONLY with ...

Hey VLC team - so net83it can downgrade to VideoLan 3.1.x on his android, but those of us with iPads are stuck.
Why won't you give us iPad owners the option of re-installing the last subversion of 3.1.x?

By the way, I just noticed I have version 3.2.7, but it does not fix this problem with SMB2.

net83it - Thanks. Unfortunately, we saw those folders before -- I think they are mentioned weeks ago on this thread -- but none of us has figured out how to install any of those ipa files on our iPads.

I'm not a tech - how does one install those ipa files? Have you done it yourself?

All here - VLC has refused to fix the problem with SMB2 since last September, when VideoLan went from version 3.1.x to 3.2. You are all correct that it works with SMB1, which is insecure, but not SMB2. See this post in this forum with thousands of views: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=36...

bobiusz - I'm already at 3. 2 .6. So, how do I install 3. 1 .6 per your post above? I would love to be able to downgrade below 3.2, as would most other users of VideoLan. And then I'd stay there. Also, do you mean set up a password on my user account on my Win 10 PC to be entered at every bootup, or...

 
Five weeks later and still not fixed.
 

 
quex - maybe not relevant, but VLC does NOT work with SMB2.
See https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=150876
 

 
Another month and still no fix.
 

 
Still broken. VLC does NOT work with SMB2.
 

Almost a month later and still no fix. Version 3.2.6 did not fix this issue.

A week later - no fix.
VideoLan on iOS cannot access video files on a LAN using SMB2.
Other apps have no problem.

Still no fix.

I just tried VLC 3.2.6
It is still broken.
It connects to SMB1, which is old and insecure.
It does NOT connect to SMB2.
Other apps on my iPad connect to SMB2 without a problem.
I guess VLC lost its up-to-date talent and is floundering. Shame.

I see there might be a new VLC 3.2.5. Does anyone know whether it connects to PCs on your LAN using only SMB2? Please confirm your PC is using ONLY SMB2, with SMB1 off. In Win 7, go to regedit. In regedit, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\LanmanServer\Parameters Look for th...

Neonbible - Verbatim MediaShare is a USB stick to plug into your PC, yes? What is its connection to your VLC? WIFi between computers on your LAN? If it is an SMB issue, then I am guessing your Vertabim MediaShare is using SMB2 and VLC is not connecting because VLC DOES NOT work with SMB2 . VLC seems...