Firestick and SMB Authentication
Posted: 10 Sep 2021 23:31
Hi
I’ve searched through all topics before posing the question here and none of the answers thus far seem exactly what I’m encountering so I hope it’s not a repeat.
I have an Amazon Firestick (two in fact) and my PC with music and video, running Linux Mint 19.3. I have set up my Samba share correctly and placed files in a folder called sambashare.
If I use my iPhone or iPad and VLC I can connect really easily and see the files and play them.
If I try via VLC and the firestick it takes me several goes of entering my samba password and username before it will play the file. Then when the programme has finished I have to do it all again to watch another. I’m sure it’s not the samba.conf file as when I’ve tried altering that it breaks other things and as I say, the iPad/iPhone seems fine, it’s just this firestick version of VLC that I am struggling with and it does eventually work, it’s just so frustrating I end up abandoning it and sitting in front of my PC. Could anybody help?
Thank you.
I’ve searched through all topics before posing the question here and none of the answers thus far seem exactly what I’m encountering so I hope it’s not a repeat.
I have an Amazon Firestick (two in fact) and my PC with music and video, running Linux Mint 19.3. I have set up my Samba share correctly and placed files in a folder called sambashare.
If I use my iPhone or iPad and VLC I can connect really easily and see the files and play them.
If I try via VLC and the firestick it takes me several goes of entering my samba password and username before it will play the file. Then when the programme has finished I have to do it all again to watch another. I’m sure it’s not the samba.conf file as when I’ve tried altering that it breaks other things and as I say, the iPad/iPhone seems fine, it’s just this firestick version of VLC that I am struggling with and it does eventually work, it’s just so frustrating I end up abandoning it and sitting in front of my PC. Could anybody help?
Thank you.