[Catalin Sanda]

On Linux XBMC doesn't use the login credentials & winbind(kerberos) authentication to access SMB shares, it uses libsmbclient with a custom smb.conf file. This makes XBMC always ask for a username/password even though they were provided on login and smbclient -k or Nautilus are able to access shares by doing a Kerberos auth. On windows this feature works, probably because it used the underling Win redirector.

It would be nice if there were a config option telling XBMC to use the SAMBA system configuration or use an existing virtual filesystem like GnomeVFS.