[kio-extras] [Bug 355328] Can't open videos via samba share on Windows PC without adding the share's password into to the URL

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355328

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   What|Removed |Added

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--- Comment #3 from Nate Graham  ---
I asked our resident Samba expert and he says that the problem here is that MPV
and VLC aren't KIO-aware, which would allow this to just work. Instead, the SMB
KIOSlave falls back to blindly passing them the path to the file, which fails
because right now that path doesn't include the password.

It seems somewhat unlikely that we'll get VLC or MPV to link against KIO--let
alone the entire universe of other non-KDE software--so we're probably going to
have to do something yucky like just add the password into the path and live
with diminished security in exchange for making this work, unless we can think
of a clever workaround that doesn't ruin performance.

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[kio-extras] [Bug 355328] Can't open videos via samba share on Windows PC without adding the share's password into to the URL

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355328

Nate Graham  changed:

   What|Removed |Added

 Ever confirmed|0   |1
Product|kio |kio-extras
Summary|Can't open videos via samba |Can't open videos via samba
   |share.  |share on Windows PC without
   ||adding the share's password
   ||into to the URL
Version|unspecified |17.08.2
   Assignee|unassigned-b...@kde.org |plasma-b...@kde.org
 Status|UNCONFIRMED |CONFIRMED
  Component|smb |default

--- Comment #2 from Nate Graham  ---
So this seems to work in Dolphin right now when the share is on a Linux PC, but
fails when the share is on a Windows PC.

As Lai Chiaheng has observed, Windows Samba seems to require the password to be
specified in the URL. From my time in Mac land, I seem to remember Finder
saying, "Are you sure you want to enable Windows Samba sharing? That requires
storing Samba passwords in an insecure way!" So maybe this is just a poor Samba
implementation in Windows that we need to handle.

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