SOLVED: Play videos from samba share RP2 not working

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Everyday I backup new photos and videos from my android mobile with the app syncme via samba onto an external USB hdd connected to my raspberry pi 2 with osmc 3.18.13-1-osmc.

This my smb.conf

cat /etc/samba/smb.conf | grep -v ^# | grep -v '^$'|less 
[global]
    config file = /etc/samba/smb-local.conf
    workgroup = WORKGROUP
    security=user
    follow symlinks = yes
    wide links = no
    unix extensions = no
    lock directory = /var/cache/samba
    load printers = no
    printing = bsd
    printcap name = /dev/null
    disable spoolss = yes
    log level = 1
    map to guest = bad user
    usershare template share = automount template
    read raw = Yes
    write raw = Yes
    strict locking = no
    min receivefile size = 16384
    use sendfile = true
    aio read size = 2048
    aio write size = 2048
    socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=131072 SO_SNDBUF=131072
[osmc]
    browsable = yes
    read only = no
    valid users = osmc
    path = /home/osmc
    comment = OSMC Home Directory
[automount template]
    browseable = yes
    -valid = no
    valid users = osmc
    path = %P
    hide files = /$RECYCLE.BIN/System Volume Information/desktop.ini/thumbs.db/
include = /etc/samba/smb-shares.conf

sudo tail -f /var/log/
[2015/07/21 13:16:21,  0] ../source3/smbd/server.c:1189(main)
  smbd version 4.1.17-Debian started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2013
[2015/07/21 13:16:21.282506,  0] ../lib/util/become_daemon.c:136(daemon_ready)
  STATUS=daemon 'smbd' finished starting up and ready to serve connectionsprocess_usershare_file: stat of /var/lib/samba/usershares/usbhdd1ext4 failed. Permission denied

less /var/lib/samba/usershares/usbhdd1ext4
#VERSION 2
path=/media/usbhdd1ext4
comment=Auto-mount Volume
usershare_acl=S-1-5-21-2361391763-375630901-2423467364-1000:f
guest_ok=n
sharename=usbhdd1ext4

osmc@osmc:~$ ls -la /media/usbhdd1ext4/2backup | grep vidbackup
drwxr-xr-x  2 osmc osmc  4096 Jul 16 13:12

Any idea what I am overlooking? My guess is:
This needs to be changed:

usershare_acl=S-1-5-21-2361391763-375630901-2423467364-1000:f

Thank you very much in advance!

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what happens when you do it?
we need a little explanation

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@filledk: Thank you for your fast reply:

VLC tells me translated into English::
p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }

Your input could not be opened:
VLC, the MRL ‘smb: //osmc@192.168.xx/usbhdd1ext4/2backup/20150716.mp4’ not open. See for details in the error log.
There is no error log of vlc though.
But if vlc is started in bash:
It offers this: (Permission denied)

I think it has to do with Access Control Lists (ACLs) as I mentioned earlier.

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You’ll need to provide more context, as you haven’t explained how VLC comes into making your backups, nor where it is running.
As far as I’m concerned, VLC on a Windows based PC is rather tricky about external shares, and I’ve never had any errors logged by it.
Derek

5

This won’t work, because you have left out the password. Try something like this:

smb://osmc:osmc@192.168.x.x/usbhdd........

Username and password are separated by a colon using the smb:// syntax.

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:grinning: Thank you that worked. But why don’t I have to do that with my old raspbmc-shares? Any idea? Thank you in advance!

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Almost certainly because of the way the shares are/were defined.
Impossible to expand on that, as it all comes down to the detail (ie where the devil resides)
Derek