No thumbnails in Nautilus for files on a network drive (smb)

Hi,
I can not find out how to get thumbnails for movie files stored on a network drive I access through Nautilus (in Gnome 3). Local files get thumbnails, but not the files on the remote drive. This works without problems in Ubuntu, so it's obviously possible. I have of course set preview to 'Always' in the Nautilus settings.

I had a similar issue, and it turns out nautilus was using ffmpegthumbnailer instead of totem-video-thumbnailer.
And ffmpegthumbnailer doesn't seem to work with files on "smb://...". It was generating empty pngs.
Do you have totem installed et does this create an image ?
totem-video-thumbnailer "smb://videoserver/pathtovideofile/videofile" test.png
Did you try to uninstall ffmpegthumbnailer or video thumbnailers other than totem ?
Last edited by shijtin (2015-03-03 00:56:25)

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