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0 pointskuschku1y ago0 comments

> One exception: in dolphin you cannot open files directly from smb:// shares

??? Of course you can.

Your comments sound like you installed KDE ontop of a distro that uses gnome by default, missing half the packages.

KIO exposes pretty much every possible protocol (including smb, dav, ftp/sftp/ssh, etc) to every KDE app, including Dolphin, Kate, Gwenview, Krita, Okular, etc.

If you're trying to open SMB files in Gnome apps, ofc, that's not gonna work.

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criticalfault1y ago

Nope, it was laptop (bare metal), kubuntu or fedora KDE Spin.

Player might have been installed via flatpak though. But I don't remember anymore.

kuschkuOP1y ago

Sounds like your problem was that while KDE supports SMB, your player does not.

While Gnome will use fuse to mount SMB into the actual file system, KDE built supports for protocol like SMB natively into their libraries.

The KDE approach has the advantage that you get native permissions and don't have to mount them into the filesystem, while the gnome approach has better backwards compatibility for third party apps.

That said, KDEs players as well as VLC should have worked. I'm using KDE with SMB daily.

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