SMB sharing with Roku Photobridge

I'm having issues with SMB sharing, as well, since upgrading to Leopard. In Tiger, I had several shares set up (using Sharepoints) in SMB that contained video files and applications for the Roku Photobridge (which runs a form of Linux), and everything was working perfectly. However, since upgrading to Leopard, I can't get the Roku to connect (I keep getting "Port 139 closed" messages on the Photobridge, even though Portscan shows that port 139 is, indeed, open). I realize this is perhaps a little off topic here, but I'm hoping that someone here has a Photobridge and has gotten this to work. I haven't had any luck on the Roku forums; almost everyone there uses PC's rather than Macs. I've had to switch back to Tiger (thank god I cloned my boot drive before upgrading) so that I can use the Photobridge.

No other Photobridge users out there?

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Is there any way to activate SMB sharing with a Sharing Only account? I've created a Sharing Only account but when I go into the Sharing prefs pane under SMB it only lists normal accounts, not the Sharing Only accounts.

I'm having a similar problem...only with FTP. I created several "Sharing Only" accounts and none of them are able to connect via FTP. I'm able to connect via FTP as a user with a standard account though.
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SMB Sharing with legacy Windows application

I have recently upgraded a client's Xserve to 10.5.x (just applied 10.5.3) from 10.4.11. The environment is Windows & Mac with approximately 70 users.
Without going into all of the problems I had with this upgrade, which ultimately became a re-format/clean install from scratch, I have one outstanding issue I have no clue with.
The Engineers in this company use a legacy windows app which is required for its specific functions. The Shares on the Leopard Server are mapped as drive letters and the workstation running the app have full access and using Windows Explorer can see all the file in the share, but the legacy app cannot.
So for example the E:/sharename/userdata/job/ contains many files. Using Windows Explorer all of these files are visible and have the correct perms, but when opening the app and using its Open Dialogue Window to point to the directory, all of the many folders within the share are visible and we can navigate within them, but the app does not see any files. It gives us 3 choices when viewing the files, *.dat, *.txt and ., but none of these show any of the files.
We also have a Windows 2003 Server which is the primary domain controller and runs Exchange 2003. If we copy the directories in question to a share on it or locally to the C: drive, then the app sees all of the files and can function normally.
Other current apps like Auto Cad and Microsoft Word and Excel function normally.
Any thoughts would be appreciated and I will provide any further information regarding the SMB setup if required.
This by-the-way worked fine when the server was running 10.4.11
I hope someone can shed some light on this.

Is the legacey application's development under your control or is a canned app?
How legacey? are we talking Windows 1.0, 286, 386, WorkGroups, 95, 98, Me, NT 3.0, NT-4, NT-2000, XP?
Do you have your heart set on Screen-scraping? or would you like to throw it out for other suggestions? (maybe screen-scraping is the only answer)
Any way, would you care to elaborate a little more on what you're doing? (yes, I am one of the more curious sorts).
Java Robot in 1.3 and later will do a limited amount of what you want, but you'll definetely need something else for full screen scraping.

Desperately need help with a networked printer and SMB sharing for windows

Complete xServ newbie here. I'm a windows/novell admin, with limited experience in Unix and Linux.
Against my advice, a client of mine that owns a small office of 20 people bought an XServG5 to act as a server for 20 mixed Windows PCs. File sharing services are working fine. I've created the users, set up groups and rights - that's all good.
I cannot get an SMB shared printer to work from the windows machines. They run through the network printer install just fine, it shows up online, etc. However, when print jobs are submitted they DO show up in the printer queue on the server, sit there for a while, and then get moved to the completed box.
They never print. There's not any indication that the job is even submitted to the printer. I can print to the printer just fine from the server itself, but the windows clients don't work, but they don't return an error message.
Print services are running on the server, I've configured the printer name to be less than 12 characters for the share, and indeed it does pop right up during the "add network printer" routine.
Ideas? I'm not even sure what questions I'm supposed to be asking, such is my ignorance of the OS. I do know that I followed the documentation to a T, and according to Apple this should work.
Thanks in advance for the help. I'm extremely frustrated.

We have the same problem. Our printer worked for about 2 years but failed similar to yours after a system update.
Can you go into the Windows service, Logs, Printer Service. Copy and paste the log here. What I am looking for is a line like lpr: CANNOTCONNECTCLIENT or something similar to this.
What I expect is that you have a problem where the cups defined printer is not usable. We can't get our problem fixed either - but am just curious if you have the same thing. We reloaded our server, applied all of the update and still cannot get it to work.
Again, I think it stems from the update.

Sharing with SMB - Keep getting "Incorrect Password" Error

When I try to enable SMB file sharing by clicking the check box next to my account name in the Sharing Preferences, I get a dialog box asking for my password, and when I type it in, I get "incorrect password". I am trying to share files on my MacBook Pro with a Windows 7 computer.
Thank you.

Dan-o, yes I have had this issue since I upgraded to lion 10.7 from snow leopard 10.6.8.
No cure yet.
Notes of curiosity:
• only seem to affect one admin user on osx. Was original user on snow leopard. Password is always rejected as incorrect when attempting to set smb access in sharing system press
• does not affect any subsequent admin users that are added. These can set DMV sharing password. Password is accepted
• same for any standard (non-admin) users. Their passwords are accepted when sharing for smb
• setting up a "root" user (active dir tool) and having this alter smb sharing does not help
• a fresh install (clean initialise) file system with lion DOES NOT EXHIBIT THIS ISSUE
• removing /library/preferences/com.apple.smb.sharing.plist also does not help
• there are no error logs for failed password when attempting the above
• Use of chmod, chown to reset permissions and acl's makes no difference
I'm still looking
Hopefully we can turn up solution soon
Simple workaround os to double handle files across users
W
Hong kong

[Mac OS 10.7]SMB sharing issue with IPv6

Hi, Folks,
I knew there are some big changes about SMB server and clients, the SMB sharing on IPv4 can work fine for me too. But the SMB sharing on IPv6 cannot work fine.
After checking the TCP ports with IPv4, the port 139 is closed, and I only can telnet with port 445. For IPv6, both port 139 and 445 are all closed.
Could you give more detail information about it? Or any solution to fix it?
Thanks & Best Regards!
Hao

Read this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3823738?start=0&tstart=0
It doesn't solve your problem, but does provide a work-around
Diederick

Roku Photobridge no longer connects to Mac after OSX Tiger security upgrade

I do the MacOS security upgrades as soon as they come out, and around mid-July, I noticed that my Roku Photobridge (aka HD1000) could no longer connect to my Mac. The error I get on the Roku is "User/Pass OK but read permission denied". Here's what I know:
- another Mac user on the Roku forum reports the same problem, with roughly the same timing, and he also installed the same security updates
- the Roku has its own account/user on the Mac, and all the permissions look fine (in fact, they're all 644 if you look at them using the command line)
- the Roku uses Windows Sharing; I've confirmed that Windows Sharing is on for its account
* the firewall on the Mac is set to allow Windows Sharing through
Any ideas or help would be gratefully appreciated!

Let me add: I've repaired permissions and repaired the disk on the Mac. No joy.

In finder, it says that I am shared to a pc which I didn't know about nor do i know the pc, how do I stop sharing with it?

In finder, it says that I am shared to a pc which I didn't know about nor do i know the pc, how do I stop sharing with it?

I gather that you are seeing other "pee-seas" (and | other hosts) in MAC OSX Finder UI under SHARED ? T/F ?? The Finder is reflecting what others are sharing.
In any case consider these items:
1) Other hosts on your network (local) have ITEMS (folders and structures) that they themselves are sharing
with anyone on there network and to others outside who will access them via a specic host nae or address. KInda like your mate who has some files he wants to share with you. You connect to his host (machine) either by a host name (yourmate.com), an IP address (33.33.33.11) or on your local area network usually over Bonjour (yourmates_macbookair.local).
Simply THEY ARE sharing their stuff with you and this your MACs FINDER makes then apear under the SHARED parion of the side bar in the UI. This is likely what you are seeing
microsoft platforms have their users share DIRECTORIES mainly through the SHARING properties for that opject. YEp.. and then you can at a minimum SEE it . HOwever this doesnt mean you can access the contents.... This is all familiar to most.. nothing to be concerned about.
Probably no need for concern.....
(IMO), its amazing the number of PC users that unknowingly expose their folder contents on a hotel WIFI or ETHERNET network... its astonishing....!
2) YOUR CONCERN that you are sharing your stuff:
I'll hazard a guess that form you minmal description that you may feel that others on your network can SEE YOUR STUFF?? Bt Default, any user can see ANYTHING you have put in your ~/Public folder (theis is your Public folder in your home directory. Usually they can ONLY read whats there unless you have gone out of your way to change the ACCESS CONTROL LIST (ACL) to an access for others other than READ ONLY.
An extention so to speak of this sharing is the concept of a "DROP BOX" that is also maintained by default in your homes public folder (~/Public/Drop Box). This is very useful for people to GIVE you their files by DROPPING then into this ~/Public/Drop Box folder.
So THIS folder is exposed for all to see on your local network.
How to stop anyone seeing anything?.. easy..
Step 1: go to SYSTEM PREFERENCES/Sharing/ and UNTICK the "File Sharing" service. Its probably already unticked. This will stop exposing anything that you have shared to others. pee-sea users may need your to enable SMB/CIFS TO READ YOUR STUFF. YOU WONT HAVE THIS ENABLED UNLESS YOU DID IT YOURSELF. Additionally there are windows .apps to read mac file systems too... so stopping all fie sharing will do the trick
Step 1.1: if you dont want others to see your ~/Public folder either then simply select the Public folder in your finder, open the Finder inspector (+i), open the disclosure triangle for "sharing and permissions" and then set the access by others to "NO ACCESS"
Step 2: while you are in SYSTEM PREFERENCES/Sharing/ and UNTICK the "Remote Login" and "Screen Sharing" services. Its very likely already unticked. This will stop exposing remote services such as ssh and vnc anything that you have shared to others.
Step 3: for extra go to SYSTEM PREFERENCES/Security/Firewall and enable any setting for network here that you want to disable or filter... seek out these apple discussion forums.. tonnes of stuff here on his.
Others reading this thread will also have good advice and opinions.
Post your results for others to see.
Warwick
Hong Kong

File Sharing With Windows

Right this is annoying the **** out of me. I've enabled everything I should on my Mac to get it sharing with windows. I'm convinced I've broke my OSX, but there's clearly something I've missed which is stopping this from working that maybes someone else can see! So here we go
Gone to system preferences, sharing
-> Ticked file sharing
-> Ticked share files over SMB
-> Ticked my user
-> Added what I want to share and gave permission to everyone as read/write for public folder.
-> Gone to network preferences and setup the WINS server to the same group as my windows PC
Just got the standard apple firewall running on my mac. I've tried disabling this and letting anything through.
The problem im having is my windows laptop cant see my mac quite often. Sometimes it can, and when it can see my mac it only displays shared printers rather than any of my shared folders. The problem here is that I dont have any printers on my mac, and printer sharing is not enabled.
Any idea why this isnt working? I've disabled windows firewall/any other firewall on my windows laptop. My windows laptop can happily access the FTP and HTTP on my Mac. Just has issues file sharing.
I actually had this working a while ago for a day, then it's never worked since. I cant for the **** of it figure out why. I've gone through loads of tutorials to see if i've missed things. Some things have even told me to change a registry file in windows, which I've done to no success.
Cheers in advance!
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Any advice guys?

File Sharing with Lion 10.9.1

We have two iMacs and cannot create shared folders with full permissions between them. Both have of us administration privileges with the other, file sharing is on and both operators are selected as well as a special group with both our names in it. For example, any folder I create on the other computer does not allow the other user to make changes without my going to that computer and changing the permissions using a Get Info window. I have tried the use of SMB sharing only as some have suggested without success. What can we do to solve this problem?

Connect to the server as the user who owns the sharepoint.

Windows Server 2012: SMB share with transparent failover

Have a nice day to all!
I have 2 HP Proliant DL380P Gen8 servers containing 8 x 1TB disks (with P420i HP Smart Array RAID Controller) in each server.
So, there are 2 arrays on every server:
1. 2 x 1TB in RAID1 (+1 disk for hot swap) - system volume
2. 5 x 1TB in RAID5 (+1 disk for hot swap) - data volume
And I installed Windows Server 2012 Standard on each server.
Than I created a failover two-nodes cluster.
And now I want to create a SMB share with transparent failover for all the second (data) volume (it's about 3.3TB in RAID5 array). How just can I reach this goal? I'm going to use it in future for Hyper-V VMs, so, the main reqirement is powered-on and working
VMs even if one node of SMB share cluster is failed.
I wasn't able to see my volumes in failover cluster manager. I tried to create iSCSI targets, storage pools, virtual disks, etc. but no luck. My failover cluster manager can't see it to create SMB share!
Can anyone advice me something?
Thanks in advance!

Have a nice day to all!
I have 2 HP Proliant DL380P Gen8 servers containing 8 x 1TB disks (with P420i HP Smart Array RAID Controller) in each server.
So, there are 2 arrays on every server:
1. 2 x 1TB in RAID1 (+1 disk for hot swap) - system volume
2. 5 x 1TB in RAID5 (+1 disk for hot swap) - data volume
And I installed Windows Server 2012 Standard on each server.
Than I created a failover two-nodes cluster.
And now I want to create a SMB share with transparent failover for all the second (data) volume (it's about 3.3TB in RAID5 array). How just can I reach this goal? I'm going to use it in future for Hyper-V VMs, so, the main reqirement is powered-on and working
VMs even if one node of SMB share cluster is failed.
I wasn't able to see my volumes in failover cluster manager. I tried to create iSCSI targets, storage pools, virtual disks, etc. but no luck. My failover cluster manager can't see it to create SMB share!
Can anyone advice me something?
Thanks in advance!
You need to have your storage you want to export as being a shared storage visible to your cluster (part of CSV). Then you'll configure failover file shares using content accessible from both cluster nodes. Refer to this manual for diagrams (ignore StarWind
and replace it logically with your existing shared storage you've used to create your cluster):
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/configuring-ha-file-server-on-windows-server-2012-for-smb-nas
Also see these manuals from MS on how to create failover file server:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753969.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731844(v=ws.10).aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2010/08/19/working-with-file-shares-in-windows-server-2008-r2-failover-clusters.aspx
However if you want to use existing storage located on the both nodes you're out of luck. Microsoft does not provide anything representing local DAS to the cluster nodes. If you want to use existing DAS then you'll have to stick with a third-party product
like StarWind, SteelEye or DataCore. To create something like in this picture:
So you'll have a configuration with only two nodes, no physical shared hardware (SAS JBOD, FC or iSCSI) and vSAN. Refer to this manual:
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/ns-configuring-ha-file-server-for-smb-nas
Hope this helped :)
StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS

Sharing with a PC

How can I share with a PC. My Leopard computer doesn't show up, but i Can see my PC on my mac

Perhaps one of the following will help:
Simple guide to Leopard/Windows Home Networking
Written by Intercepter121 and originally posted on the Apple Discussions here.
If your network complies to the minimum requirements described below you should be able to share resources without any need to enter commands in the terminal to modify configuration files in your mac.
Requirements
1. A decent router
2. Mac Os x 10.5.1 installed on your macs
3. Windows XP or Vista
4. Number of network devices <10
5. Some network printers or drives (NAS)
6. A decent ISP offering a good DNS service
<u>General Settings
If your router offers DHCP and any of the device has power saving features there is a risk that the IP addresses are renewed. This can be problematic as the devices keep changing IP addresses. As this is your network is strongly recommended to reserve IP addresses to the MAC (Machine Address Code) of the various devices so that they can power on and off and still keep the same IP.This simple suggestion will greatly improve the browsing of the local network.
Accessing Windows Resources from Leopard with no authentication
Windows
1. Check the settings of the PC and ensure the IP addresses on the local LAN are trusted
2. Activate sharing on the desired devices ensuring the shares are read and write. If you use Vista ensure password protected sharing is disabled.
3. Try to access the windows share from another windows computer if available to confirm no authentication is required
MAC
1. Go into system preferences->security-Firewall check that the setting is not on allow only essential services. Recommended settings is allow access to specific
2. Go back into system preferences network. On the tab location click edit locations. Duplicate Automatic and call the new location Home. Now select the Home location and go into Advanced-WINS. In the workgroup field enter the same value that is on the other windows computers for example HOME. Now press enter then go back to the main screen. Select Edit locations and delete the location automatic. Now edit your location Home and rename it Automatic. This workaround is a leopard bug described here.
3. Give 5 minutes to allow all the other machines to broadcast their IP address and the other computers should appear on the left side of your finder window. You can now select the shares you want to connect. As no authentication is active if you are prompted with a user name just press OK.
The procedure to access a NAS is the same as above, just ensure permissions are set to files are read/write for anyone to avoid confusion.
NOTE: There is no need to activate SMB sharing if you don't want to allow the PC to read folders on your MAC
Troubleshooting
After you have followed all the steps you don't see any windows PC.
Identify the IP address of the machine you want to connect. In finder select Option+K and enter SMB://IPADDRESS. If you can connect you have a name resolution problem. Go into your router configuration and ensure that the option DNS assigned by ISP is selected and you don't have services like Open DNS in use and fixed IP addresses in that field. Apply the changes and reboot the router. You should start seeing windows PC in finder shortly after.
Your ISP DNS service is poor and you must use Open DNS or similar
If you are forced to use services like open dns you have the risk that the router propagates the DNS servers to your machines. As the implementation of SAMBA in Leopard effectively blocks the MAC to be a master browser for performance reasons you end in a situation in which tiger machines connect and leopard ones don't see a single share. Let's fix it.
1. Go into System Preferences->Network then advanced DNS if you see here the IP addresses of the open dns servers this is the case. Unfortunately you will be forced to change the hosts file.
2.Ensure you have reserved IP addresses to all your machines so that they always get the same IP.
3. Now login into your mac as administrator and go into utilities=>terminal.
4. Issue the following command sudo pico /etc/hosts
5. Now scroll down and enter all the IP addresses and computer names of any device you want to browse
6. Reboot your MAC
The windows devices will now appear in finder and you will be able to connect with Option+K.
You cannot access shares even entering the IP address
You have not reserved IP addresses to each machine. Go into your router LAN set up and make sure that is the case.
Accessing Leopard resources from Windows
1. Go into system preferences->security-Firewall check that the setting is not on allow only essential services. Recommended settings is allow access to specific
2. Go into System preferences->accounts and click on Guest flag the option Enable guest account to access shared folders
3. Now into System preferences->sharing select file sharing and then options here flag SMB and select the user that has to be logged into the computer when the share has to be accessed. Ensure that the folder you want to share has read/write or whatever permissions you like it to have set for Everyone
You should now be able to see your MAC in the windows network resources and access the shared folder with a double click without any password request.
Troubleshooting
You don't see any MACs from Windows
Check the firewall settings at the start of this post. Then go back to the Network configuration hit advanced and then TCPIP check is using DHCP and not a fixed address. Then check the sharing is set as above with SMB clicked. If SMB is not set you won't even see your mac from windows.
You see the MAC and the shared folders but you can't read or write on it
Ensure you have set the guest account to access shared folders. Then check on the sharing preferences that there is at least one folder with read permission for everyone. The classic case here is Dropbox that leopard sets as read and write for the user of the MAC but no access for other users. You try to click on drop box and receive an error but when you actually try to write a file you can do it. Check the permissions on the subfolders of the share as those permissions will prevail on the home shared folders
FAQ
You may want to do more complicated things, but first ensure you can actually share files without security in place so you can identify the root cause of your possible problems
I want to password protect my windows shares: once you have done the relative set up in windows vista and ensured you can connect from another windows machine you will need to use user name and password of the Vista user to connect.
I want to password protect my MAC shared folders: Go into user account and disable guest access to shared folders is no shared folder has to be accessed without password otherwise leave it checked. Create a new user for sharing (better than giving away your password) so that this user only accesses the folders you want to share. In System preferences network select file sharing SMB and flag only the new user you have defined. Then go back to the folder section and set the permissions you like on the folder you want to share for this newly defined user.
Good Luck
<font size = "+1>Basic Windows Networking and File Sharing for Leopard</font></b>
The following articles cover the basics for file sharing and printer sharing between Macs and Windows PCs (Leopard):
<a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1163.html"> Setting up a Windows computer to share files with Mac users
Setting up a Mac computer to share files with Windows users
Can't print to a printer shared by Microsoft Windows
GUIDE to Networking Windows with OS X
Cannot locate a shared Windows printer
Problems with networked Windows printers_ workaround
Setting up to print to a printer shared by a Windows computer via SMB
Some of this information is also available through online help. Select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and search on the appropriate keywords.

Blutooth sharing with pc

I am having a problem file sharing with my pc laptop. While the pc can send to my macbook, my macbook can't send to the pc. I have a 2Ghz core i7 processor running OS X Lion 10.7.5 and the pc is an Acer running Windows7 on an Intel core i3 processor. The Acer uses a generic Blutooth adaptor as it has no builtin capabilities. I can send files all day from the Acer to my Macbook, but at first all the Mac would say is "device does not have necessary services". I changed the setting in file sharing to enable SMB and now it will not connect at all and when I try to send a file it shows the Acer as being discovered but just says there was an error with the sending.
Anyone have any thoughts on how I can correct this?

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SMB sharing broken in 10.4.5?

Experienced technology user, but new Mac switcher trying to get my WinXP SP2 laptop to connect to a share on my new Mac Mini Core Duo (Tiger 10.4.5).
I can see the Mac in the Windows workgroup from the laptop. When I double click on Mac, I am prompted for my username and password - but whatever I enter, I'm simply prompted again, as if the user/password combo is incorrect.
Deliberately typing an incorrect password gives the same results. I've also tried creating additional accounts on the Mac (and granting permission to use Windows sharing) with no luck. Same issue with firewall on and off.
FTP works, however, so this appears to be an SMB issue.
I have previously borrowed a G4 Mini (obviously running a different version of OS X) and was connecting from my laptop in seconds. There seem to be a number of other people on the web who are experiencing a similar problem with 10.4.5, so presumably this is a bug? Digging around, there are suggestions to edit smb.conf - but this doesn't seem like a very 'Mac like' solution to the problem...
BTW - I spoke with Apple Care about this last weekend - ticket number 60493665. The 'expert' was about to go home and so wouldn't speak with me. I was promised a call on Monday, but am still waiting a week later. Is this a usual experience with these guys?
Chippy

My problem is, as it works here with multiple Macs all on 10.4.5 and multiple WinBoxes running XP Home SP2, XP Pro SP2, Ubuntu Linux, and WS2k3, I kinda have a problem helping fix it. The problem certainly seems as real as problems get, but it also seems to affect just a subset of users. What kind of machine are you using, both Mac and WinBox? Do you have anything non-standard running on either? (Haxies, themes, specialised anti-virus or anti-spyware? You should note that it's a bad idea to run post 2002 versions of Norton Antivirus on Windows and worse on Macs; in both cases, the antivirus ***** down CPU cycles the way a sailor on leave ***** down alcohol, and as there aren't any real OS X viruses... It's an extremely bad idea to run Norton Utilities on a Mac running OS X. Norton Utilities can destroy your hard disk.) If you can think of anything unusual it may help.
As for AppleCare... they're probably getting slammed with calls about dead and dieing eMacs, but don't get me started on that.

No thumbnails/preview in Nautilus for files in a smb shared folder.

Hi,
This is a problem I have tried to solve for more than a year by posting in forums, trial and error and a lot of Google searches. For my work I have to look through large folders on a smb share with movie files. I need thumbnails/preview to be able to work efficiently. On Ubuntu and other deb based distros I have thumbnails/preview in Nautilus just by setting it in the Naurilus preferences for networked folders. Not so on Arch (and Antergos). I do have thumbnails/preview for local files, but regardless of what I do not for the smb shared folders. I have of course configured Nautilus to preview all files.
I can see that there are generated failed thumbnails in ~/.cache/thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory, so for some reason they are not generated correctly for the movie files in the smb shared folder on Arch. I have tried to install ffmpegthumbnailer and tons of other methods I have found in the forums and elsewhere, but I have not been able to get it to work. And again, on Ubuntu it works out of the box so it's not like there's a bug in Nautilus preventing thumbnails for files on a network share.
I'm running GNOME as my DE, but it doesn't seem to matter which DE I run as long as Nautilus or Nemo is the file manager.
I do not expect a solution, but one can always hope!

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 ?
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