Not to resurrect an old thread, but if anyone has this same issue and was wondering, you can make it work by following these directions: http://jorisvandijk.com/2013/vlc-wont-play-smb-shares/
Summary:
Open VLC
Go to Tools > Preferences
Under the header Show Settings (bottom left), select the All button
Select Input / Codecs > Access Modules > SMB on the left
Enter credentials
This got VLC playing videos via samba for me.
来源：https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/401#issuecomment-129041999
如果：Select Input / Codecs > Access Modules > SMB
没有SMB，此方法失效。
见：
VLC update - no longer can stream videos from smb share
标签：play,samba,videos,vlc,Access,shared,SMB From： https://www.cnblogs.com/profesor/p/18264860