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My shared folders on a Windows 10 PC are no longer visible on VLC v3.02. This was not the case previously.
The shared folders can be accessed without any problems from my laptop running Windows 10.

iPhone running IOS 9.35. An alternative IOS app, FileExplorer: File Manager has no problems discovering and accessing my shared folders.



Help please?

Managed to fix this issue by enabling all 3 options under SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support in Turn Windows features on or off...

I have the same problem, and got it working with enabling SMBv1. But is this the only option??
SMBv1 is very risky business, with the exploit of ransomware ala Wannacrypt...

I have the same problem, and got it working with enabling SMBv1. But is this the only option??
SMBv1 is very risky business, with the exploit of ransomware ala Wannacrypt...

Well, it seems VLC for IOS still uses SMB1 as I get the following error in Event Viewer when SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support is disabled in Windows 10.





SMB 2/3 on VLC for IOS?

Hello,
I have the same problem with my Synology. Some weeks ago, I disabled SMBv1 on the synology, and since, VLC iOS can't access to the list of shares.
If I activate again SMBv1 in the synology, VLC can see what's on the NAS.

So it would be great if VLC iOS can work without SMBv1 and be OK with v2/v3.

This needs to work with SMBv2/3 NOW Who can we influence to make it happen?

I just had this same problem on both my iPad and Apple TV 4K with IOS v3.0.7, attempting to play videos from my Windows 10 desktop.
This had been working for some time. I believe that the recently installed Windows 10 v1909 update may have turned off the SMB Version 1 feature in Windows 10.
I followed your advice and turned the SMB V1 feature back on and now VLC is working on both Apple devices.
Thanks for posting the original problem.

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&t=151186

I think I'm still using VideoLan version 3.2.6 on my iPad, but someone mentioned a 3.2.7. Does it fix the problem? I think not or I would see something here. Please let us know.

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 SMB1, which is not secure. However, other apps on my iPad connect to my Win 10 PC with SMB2, so this remains VLC's big hot mess.
VLC - stop arguing and FIX THIS.

Hi I'm trying to open a folder of videos on my Windows 10 PC from VLC on iOS and have already activated smb1 with all three options and have shared the folder on the network and have even tried the DCHP server address of the PC but none of it is making the folder show up on iOS. Can anyone here help me? I van not find a guide online that works. Thank you in advance.