Re:GTK 5 might drop X11 support
by ac29 on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @10:44PM
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>So I messed around trying to re-authenticate the share, different users etc. Nothing worked. I could view images just fine, but the videos just wouldn't play.
>Looking at the SMPlayer logs I noticed something that struck me as odd. After the NT_SOMETHIG_SOMETHING error, there was mention of a Wayland authentication error...
>So I logged back out, selected Xorg, logged back in and boom, video played like nothing had happened.
>I'm just a user. I don't wanna dig into why the hell Wayland has anything to do with Samba share authentication. I just want my computer to work.
A recent upstream Linux kernel update broke certain SMB shares, if you are using Arch (or something else that closely follows upstream), its probably that.
>Looking at the SMPlayer logs I noticed something that struck me as odd. After the NT_SOMETHIG_SOMETHING error, there was mention of a Wayland authentication error...
>So I logged back out, selected Xorg, logged back in and boom, video played like nothing had happened.
>I'm just a user. I don't wanna dig into why the hell Wayland has anything to do with Samba share authentication. I just want my computer to work.
A recent upstream Linux kernel update broke certain SMB shares, if you are using Arch (or something else that closely follows upstream), its probably that.