KDE edition (triskel) - The elephant in the room

A few weeks ago I checked out Triskel. Not only is KDE a good looking desktop but also a fast one too. An interesting route for Trisquel to take but I'll cut to the point.

I love KDE but I don't use it for one important reason. The Samba support for playing media (especially videos) over the LAN doesn't work. I think i have tried installing just about every smb service to try and get video files to open via Dolphin. A few years ago I asked the KDE forum, I understand the underlying services of the desktop has little or no support for passing LAN user credentials to applications. The suggested work around is to manually copy files to the local disk and play them from there, or configure applications. Not only is this unacceptably frustrating but unpractical in a number of ways.

Does anyone know how to get KDE to behave and play videos across the LAN natively, though Samba from the Dolphin file browser?