SMB Connection Time Out (Fresh Install of 10.0 Beta)

bejhan · April 11, 2021 at 6:23 AM

After performing a fresh install of LibreELEC 10.0 Beta on my Rapberry Pi 4 (LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-9.95.1.img.gz), I can't seem to access my Samba share (Windows 10) any longer.

I've just installed Kodi Matrix on a few Amazon Fire Sticks as well and they can access the share so I think this problem has something to do with LibreELEC specifically.

sources.xml:

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<sources>
    <programs>
        <default pathversion="1"></default>
    </programs>
    <video>
        <default pathversion="1"></default>
        <source>
            <name>Downloads</name>
            <path pathversion="1">smb://BEJHAN-PC/Downloads/</path>
            <allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
        </source>     
        <source>
            <name>Videos</name>
            <path pathversion="1">smb://BEJHAN-PC/Videos/</path>
            <allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
        </source>
    </video>
    <music>
        <default pathversion="1"></default>
    </music>
    <pictures>
        <default pathversion="1"></default>
    </pictures>
    <files>
        <default pathversion="1"></default>
    </files>
</sources>

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passwords.xml:

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<passwords>
    <path>
        <from pathversion="1">smb://BEJHAN-PC/</from>
        <to pathversion="1">smb://share:redacted@BEJHAN-PC/</to>
    </path>
</passwords>

I've attached a debug kodi.log.

The following lines correspond to me trying to play a library item that is located on the Samba share:

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2021-04-10 23:09:55.123 T:1062    ERROR <general>: SMBDirectory->GetDirectory: Unable to open directory : 'smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@10.13.137.57/Videos/Movies'
                                                   unix_err:'6e' error : 'Connection timed out'
2021-04-10 23:09:55.124 T:1062    ERROR <general>: GetDirectory - Error getting smb://BEJHAN-PC/Videos/Movies/
2021-04-10 23:10:00.142 T:1062    DEBUG <general>: connect replacing configured host 192.168.0.180 with resolved host 192.168.0.180
2021-04-10 23:10:02.892 T:923     DEBUG <general>: CheckIdle - Closing session to https://image.tmdb.org (easy=0x25405d8, multi=0x241b028)
2021-04-10 23:10:05.180 T:1062    ERROR <general>: SMBDirectory->GetDirectory: Unable to open directory : 'smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@10.13.137.57/Videos/Movies'
                                                   unix_err:'6e' error : 'Connection timed out'
2021-04-10 23:10:05.181 T:1062    ERROR <general>: GetDirectory - Error getting smb://BEJHAN-PC/Videos/Movies/
2021-04-10 23:10:10.192 T:1062    DEBUG <general>: CSMBFile::Open - opened smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@BEJHAN-PC/Videos/Movies/Room (2015).mp4, fd=-1
2021-04-10 23:10:10.192 T:1062     INFO <general>: SMBFile->Open: Unable to open file : 'smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@10.13.137.57/Videos/Movies/Room%20(2015).mp4'
                                                   unix_err:'6e' error : 'Connection timed out'
2021-04-10 23:10:10.197 T:1062    ERROR <general>: CVideoPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [smb://BEJHAN-PC/Videos/Movies/Room (2015).mp4]
2021-04-10 23:10:10.197 T:1062     INFO <general>: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
2021-04-10 23:10:10.197 T:1011    DEBUG <general>: connect replacing configured host 192.168.0.180 with resolved host 192.168.0.180
2021-04-10 23:10:10.197 T:1062    DEBUG <general>: Thread VideoPlayer 2459800224 terminating

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The IP address 10.13.137.57 that is specified a few times is especially puzzling.

BEJHAN-PC has an IP address of 192.168.0.180 so I'm not sure where that is coming from.

I checked the SMB client settings on the Fire Sticks for any discrepancies but they are the same.

I also tried explicitly adding the IP address from BEJHAN-PC to /storage/.config/hosts.conf but it made no difference.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

**mglae** · April 11, 2021 at 9:08 AM Best Answer

Most likely you have a VM running on the Windows machine and its address is selected. Use nmblookup BEJHAN-PC on the RPI to verify.

If yes use smb://...@192.168.0.180/

See pvr.mediaportal - working in LE 9.26, not working in LE 10.0

bejhan · April 11, 2021 at 6:42 PM

Quote from mglae

Most likely you have a VM running on the Windows machine and its address is selected. Use nmblookup BEJHAN-PC on the RPI to verify.
If yes use smb://...@192.168.0.180/
See pvr.mediaportal - working in LE 9.26, not working in LE 10.0

As you suggested, the strange IP address belongs to a secondary adapter on BEJHAN-PC:

This particular IP belongs to a VPN tunnel but I have a VM running too, which would also be problematic:

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LibreELEC:~ # nmblookup BEJHAN-PC
192.168.0.180 BEJHAN-PC<00>
192.168.56.1 BEJHAN-PC<00>
10.13.137.57 BEJHAN-PC<00>

As you suggested, using the IP address instead of the hostname in sources.xml solved my issue:

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<sources>
    <programs>
        <default pathversion="1"></default>
    </programs>
    <video>
        <default pathversion="1"></default>
        <source>
            <name>Downloads</name>
            <path pathversion="1">smb://192.168.0.180/Downloads/</path>
            <allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
        </source>
        <source>
            <name>Videos</name>
            <path pathversion="1">smb://192.168.0.180/Videos/</path>
            <allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
        </source>
    </video>
    <music>
        <default pathversion="1"></default>
    </music>
    <pictures>
        <default pathversion="1"></default>
    </pictures>
    <files>
        <default pathversion="1"></default>
    </files>
</sources>

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Though I also had to add a path substitution to advancedsettings.xml since all of the paths in my shared library use the hostname:

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    <pathsubstitution>
        <substitute>
            <from>smb://BEJHAN-PC/</from>
            <to>smb://192.168.0.180/</to>
        </substitute>
    </pathsubstitution>

Thanks for you help!

**mglae** · April 11, 2021 at 10:35 PM

Please post the output of

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nmblookup -A 192.168.56.1
nmblookup -A 10.13.137.57

bejhan · April 11, 2021 at 10:44 PM

I ran the command on 192.168.0.180 as well as I was curious as to the difference in result:

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LibreELEC:~ # nmblookup -A 192.168.56.1
Looking up status of 192.168.56.1
No reply from 192.168.56.1

LibreELEC:~ # nmblookup -A 10.13.137.57
Looking up status of 10.13.137.57
No reply from 10.13.137.57

LibreELEC:~ # nmblookup -A 192.168.0.180
Looking up status of 192.168.0.180
        BEJHAN-PC       <20> -         B <ACTIVE>
        BEJHAN-PC       <00> -         B <ACTIVE>
        WORKGROUP       <00> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>

        MAC Address = 18-C0-4D-92-7A-7B

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**mglae** · April 12, 2021 at 3:40 PM

Thanks. Is working - better: not working - as expected.

bejhan · April 30, 2021 at 1:13 AM

Is there another work around for this issue that would allow continuing to use hostname? Maybe a way I can hide my other adapter IPs from the Samba probe?

I just ask because using the IP address and path substitution works fine for library browsing (movies and TV shows) but doesn't support fetching library information when browsing sources (videos).

**mglae** · April 30, 2021 at 4:19 PM

I will create a kodi PR the next few days to select the public IP address.

I don't see any work around because nmblookup is the first method tried by kodi.

bejhan · April 30, 2021 at 5:21 PM

This issue only exists on my Raspberry Pi (LibreELEC), what would be reason that my Fire Sticks don't exhibit the same problem?

Just curious. Thanks.

**mglae** · April 30, 2021 at 7:06 PM

Likely the Fire Sticks are not using nmblookup, but I do have no experience with kodi on android.

**mglae** · May 10, 2021 at 3:59 PM

The fix is now included into nightly builds.

bejhan · June 23, 2021 at 3:26 PM

I see your fix is included in Kodi Matrix 19.1, any idea when LibreELEC will include that in a release?

**mglae** · June 24, 2021 at 3:49 PM

IMO it is already in 9.95.4.

bejhan · June 24, 2021 at 4:19 PM

I'd previously just looked at the LibreELEC releases on GitHub and didn't see a release with a description that specified a Kodi merge (after the date on which your Kodi PR was merged). However, now comparing the 9.95.2 and 9.95.4 tags, I see there was a Kodi 19.1 merge on May 9th (PR #5360).

I also just reverted my sources.xml to use hostname (rather than IP address) and it now works!

Thank you so much for fixing this issue!

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