Problem accessing Kodi SMB shares after upgrade to 8.2.3

    Hi there!

    So here's my Setup. I own:

    - A HTPC in my living room, that also acts like a server, running on an generic intel chip with LibreELEC 8.2.3 installed

    - A RaspberryPi Model 1B in my bedroom, also running LibreELEC 8.2.3

    - A Win 10 Laptop, from which I usually copy Media onto the server

    Since I just updated to the new LibreELEC version (don't know exactly which one was running previously - it had Krypton 17.3 running) I can't access the server anymore over the SMB-shares. I know, that there have been some changes recently concerning the SMB protocols that Kodi uses, but anything I tried to get it to run just won't work.

    Basically the problem is, that I cannot even see the HTPC in the network. I already tried to configure the "new" samba.conf, but even if I let in the standard values it takes no effect.

    All three computers are in the same workgroup called "WORKGROUP". But even in the data browser in Kodi i can't see the other machines in the SMB Folder. It only really works via the zeroconf browser. On the Windows Machine though - no chance at all. I tried to access it via it's given name in the explorer (\\HTPC or \\LIBREELEC), via IP-Adress (\\192.168.0.20) and via the share name (i.e. \\192.168.0.20\Update) - but still it seems to not even trying to connect to one of those...

    I also tried tweaking the settings of the min-max protocol version in Kodi (1-1, 2-3, 2-2, 3-3, 1-3) but after rebooting it's always set back to "None"...

    Does anybody have any Idea what I could do? I'm really running out of ideas right now...

    Did you read the announcement documenting the Samba changes? Network browsing is no longer supported which is why you don't see the other shares listed in Kodi - you need to manually add their network location now.

    I don't know why the min/max protocol settings would be resetting to "None" after a reboot - that's not right but you're the first person to report it. Are you changing the Kodi client settings, or the settings in the LibreELEC Settings add-on?

    If you're editing the Samba Server configuration samba.conf then you may have added an error. Upload your version, and also "journalctl -a" from the server (to a pastebin site, then post the links).

    Out of the box LE 8.2.3 with default/stock Samba Server and Kodi client SMB settings will work fine with Windows 7+ so if it's not working then check any changes you've made, reset them to default and start again.

    Allright, after I executed "journalctl -a" I saw that an old iMon-driver seemed to block everything else (ETx), after deactivating it, it finally worked as it should (ETz)...

    I can now access again through Windows. Problem solved - I guess.

    Thank you very much!

    You might also want to fix the typos in your samba.conf:

    Code
    Jan 29 17:55:03 HTPC smbd[584]: [2018/01/29 17:55:03.007792,  0] ../lib/param/loadparm.c:772(lpcfg_map_parameter)
Jan 29 17:55:03 HTPC smbd[584]:   Unknown parameter encountered: "brwoseable"
Jan 29 17:55:03 HTPC smbd[584]: [2018/01/29 17:55:03.007833,  0] ../lib/param/loadparm.c:1750(lpcfg_do_service_parameter)
Jan 29 17:55:03 HTPC smbd[584]:   Ignoring unknown parameter "brwoseable"
Jan 29 17:55:03 HTPC smbd[584]: [2018/01/29 17:55:03.007861,  0] ../lib/param/loadparm.c:772(lpcfg_map_parameter)
Jan 29 17:55:03 HTPC smbd[584]:   Unknown parameter encountered: "writeabele"
Jan 29 17:55:03 HTPC smbd[584]: [2018/01/29 17:55:03.007871,  0] ../lib/param/loadparm.c:1750(lpcfg_do_service_parameter)
Jan 29 17:55:03 HTPC smbd[584]:   Ignoring unknown parameter "writeabele"