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theothernt / AerialViews

A screensaver for Android TV devices including Nvidia Shield, Fire TV, and Chromecast with Google TV. Inspired by Apple TV's video screensaver.
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SMB not working #82

Closed CleanWillie closed 1 year ago

CleanWillie commented 1 year ago

Hello!

I have a Touchscreen on a Stand for a Museum that I want to play some videos on. since we already have several Servers, it would be convenient to connect AerialViews to a shared folder, but no matter what I do, authentication fails. Local playback works fine. It's a Mac server.

We tried a Macmini Server, and a dedicated Unix NAS, with and without passwords, only letters in all the names and credentials, all to no avail.

Is SAMBA Necessary? I don#t really understand how it differs from SMB, and read a lot about hiccups on mac systems (we can't use it for sure)

theothernt commented 1 year ago

Thanks for reporting the issue.

Samba is just another name for SMB. SMB was invented by Microsoft, Samba is name used in open-source projects - but it's the same protocol and technology.

You've already mentioned that you've tried with and without passwords, can I get a bit more detail on...

  1. What version of SMB is enabled on the server (Mac or Linux NAS)?
  2. Which version of macOS server is being used?
  3. Are you trying connect via IP address or a hostname?
  4. In Settings > Performance & Debug > Select SMB dialects - can you uncheck all of the SMB 3.x versions?
CleanWillie commented 1 year ago

Wow, thank you so much for the quick reply!

It's running SMB 3.0.2, the macOS Server version is 12.6.1.

I'm trying to connect via IP Address. I Installed a Network scanner (on the glorified tablet stand thing) for troubleshooting and it doesn't recognize the Hostname, so that wouldn't even work i guess

i CAN deselect all the SMB 3.x Versions – should I?

CleanWillie commented 1 year ago

Update:

Connected it via Ethernet and switched off all SMB 3.x versions – no success.

Edit: The Tablet is running Android 9.

Edit 2: Just bought "Fully Kiosk Browser", which seems to cover all my needs at the moment. Would be interesting if the problem is found regardless. You can use me as an Avatar :D

theothernt commented 1 year ago

Glad to hear you found a solution!

I'll keep looking into the issue, so far it seems to a known problem with the library I use (SMBJ) and macOS.