I am wanting to switch from Jellyfin to VLC. I cannot find any tutorials or explanations on how to do this. I have a Ubuntu server with media files on it, and on VLC, the server shows up under the “browse” > “local network” Section on the VLC android app.
The icon says “smb” on it, which seems like the protocol used, however when I click on that, it takes me to a “print$” folder which then asks for the login credentials. The username and PW for local account doesn’t work.
How do I get access to the folder of media on VLC? (Call it /mnt/hdd1/my media)
Edit: FTP works with VLC, but a slightly better interface can be had with Kodi
SMB is a network protocol developed by Microsoft. It’s the protocol used by Windows computers to share files with each other. But the protocol was reverse-engineered and a program called Samba provides SMB functionality on Linux. You only see print$ because your Samba isn’t configured with any file shares. You’ll have to configure it. You can find guides online about how to configure Samba. Samba also maintains its own user list independent of the system. That’s why your local account password didn’t work.