I am running LibrElec 8.2.5 / Kodi 17.6 (LibreELEC-RPi.arm-8.2.5.img) on a Raspberry Pi 1b. This is more of an out-of-curiosity question than a request for help, so I'll be brief. When attempting to access a Windows 7 SMB share in the Kodi UI, there is no guest / anonymous access option in the username / password prompt. I have read the announcement which suggests that guest / anonymous may no longer work. I understand this will not work for SMB shares hosted on Win10 boxes because guest / anonymous access has been disabled in a recent release of Win10 itself. However, no such limitation has been put upon Windows 7 (not sure about 8 & 8.1). As a side note: I can successfully access the Win7 share anonymously using the command line smbclient in Ubuntu 16 (SMB 2.1 protocol).
Precisely what is it within the current LibreElec / Kodi distribution that has changed that means guest / anonymous in the smb client is no longer an option?