I had this problem after I upgraded from Ubuntu 13.10 to 14.04. After messing around with the settings, I got it to work again. What I did was to go to Tools -> Preferences -> Show all settings (at the bottom left) -> Input / Codecs -> Access Modules -> SMB, and then input your Samba credentials there.
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