Can't See WORKGROUP

WarpLover · December 12, 2017 at 7:42 AM

I can't see widows shares in widows WORKGROUP any more running Kodi/LE on a wetek play one.

What would the share path look like doing it manually? smb://192.168.1.1/drive/folder?

Thanks!

**Jocke.Sve** · December 12, 2017 at 8:31 AM

You can always use (as You stated):

smb://192.168.1.1/sharename

or

smb://192.168.1.1/sharename$

**DaVu** · December 12, 2017 at 8:44 AM Official Post

if you open the windows console, you can enter: net share to see how the share is named on your host machine. Then just use:

smb://ip_of_host/share_name

WarpLover · December 13, 2017 at 6:43 AM

It asks for a username and password. There is none that I am aware of. What do I do?

**Jocke.Sve** · December 13, 2017 at 8:46 AM

I'm quite sure that You can solve that issue by looking at LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.0 RELEASE – LibreELEC, scroll down to "!!! SAMBA / SMB CHANGES !!!" and looking carefully at the last four bullets.

WarpLover · December 21, 2017 at 8:28 PM

Nothing works.

I am not editing any files.

You have you've reasons, but you've screwed things up where usability is concerned.

I might as well drop streaming boxes as usability is going backwards.

**chewitt** · December 22, 2017 at 4:00 PM Official Post

Code

<sources>
    <video>
        <default pathversion="1"></default>
        <source>
            <name>SOURCE_NAME</name>
            <path pathversion="1">smb://user:password@SERVER/SHARE/FOLDER/</path>
            <allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
        </source>
    </video>
</sources>

^ that is how something looks in sources.xml .. I find editing the file directly is faster than figuring out things in the GUI.

**blueribb** · December 22, 2017 at 4:00 PM

Quote from WarpLover

Nothing works.

I am not editing any files.

You have you've reasons, but you've screwed things up where usability is concerned.

I might as well drop streaming boxes as usability is going backwards.

There is a learning curve associated with Libreelec and Kodi. If you're not willing to learn, then it's your loss. By the way, your Windows Shares must now be password protected in order for the new SMB / Samba path to work. I was stumped until I asked for help here. Good Luck !

WarpLover · January 2, 2018 at 8:21 PM

Quote from blueribb

There is a learning curve associated with Libreelec and Kodi. If you're not willing to learn, then it's your loss. By the way, your Windows Shares must now be password protected in order for the new SMB / Samba path to work. I was stumped until I asked for help here. Good Luck !

We just went from win 7 to win 3.1 with the networking.

Why don't we just fiddle with IRQs, DMA, and COM ports again?

version 17, right? lol

been using streaming boxes since WDTV

been using KODI since early XBMC

I built my second computer, a 486DX

thanks for your support though

**Jocke.Sve** · January 3, 2018 at 6:52 AM

WarpLover :

I somewhat agree to Your comments...

It's defectively NOT user-friendly in any way to be forced to use a separate computer to access Your media player via SSH console and 'hack' some obscure text files ...

That's anything but user-friendly. Especially if You don't have the basic skills.

I'd like to call that close to nerdy.

For me (personal opinion!) that's one point where there is a massive area for huge improvements.

On the other hand: It's free and nobody forces You to choose LE, there are quite many commercial options to choose between...

**nickr** · January 3, 2018 at 7:39 AM Official Post

Quote from WarpLover

We just went from win 7 to win 3.1 with the networking.

Why don't we just fiddle with IRQs, DMA, and COM ports again?

version 17, right? lol

been using streaming boxes since WDTV

been using KODI since early XBMC

I built my second computer, a 486DX

thanks for your support though

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No we have not mucked anything up. These are microsoft's choices, not ours.

Billzilla · January 3, 2018 at 8:36 AM

Quote from blueribb

There is a learning curve associated with Libreelec and Kodi. If you're not willing to learn, then it's your loss. By the way, your Windows Shares must now be password protected in order for the new SMB / Samba path to work. I was stumped until I asked for help here. Good Luck !

You're lucky then - No-one wanted to help me. I had top search around to find something that worked, and when I posted it here I was told that it was the wrong way to do it.

RedneckSavant · January 5, 2021 at 3:37 PM

I am not sure how three people responding constitutes "no one wanted to help me". That seems rather ungrateful to those poor wretches who spent their time trying to help you. I am new to LE, and having trouble finding the share myself - fortunately one of those poor wretches mentioned previously had a very useful comment. "I'm quite sure that You can solve that issue by looking at LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.0 RELEASE – LibreELEC, scroll down to "!!! SAMBA / SMB CHANGES !!!" and looking carefully at the last four bullets."

Reading is FUNdaMENTAL.

**Klojum** · January 5, 2021 at 4:13 PM Official Post

Quote from RedneckSavant

Reading is FUNdaMENTAL.

You know that you are reacting to a 2017/2018 forum thread, right?

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