Nope, it was laptop (bare metal), kubuntu or fedora KDE Spin.
Player might have been installed via flatpak though. But I don't remember anymore.
Player might have been installed via flatpak though. But I don't remember anymore.
While Gnome will use fuse to mount SMB into the actual file system, KDE built supports for protocol like SMB natively into their libraries.
The KDE approach has the advantage that you get native permissions and don't have to mount them into the filesystem, while the gnome approach has better backwards compatibility for third party apps.
That said, KDEs players as well as VLC should have worked. I'm using KDE with SMB daily.