RP3B+ LE 11 - can't connect to network shares....

    Hello. :)

    PI 3 B+, LE version 11.0.3

    Add Network Location...

    Specify IP address and path to shares - /mnt/sda1 @ 192.168.1.201(static, not DHCP)

    Specify username and password - (root and P/W)

    Click OK.

    LE moans that the share cannot be found, but I can access it just fine on Windoze.

    root for user as the server runs Puppy Linux which is always root.

    Puppy Simple SAMBA Management has the /mnt path shared, so you can usually see all the drive folders under that

    I can also see the server fine in Linux Mint using the Samba shares mounter thing.

    SMB1 set as minimum, but I am pretty sure that Puppy Linux uses at least SMB2.

    SMB3 set as maximum.

    Does anyone have any pointers or suggestions?

    An ancient old OpenELEC 7 PI can browse to the shares on the network just fine, so they ARE there, but LE11 won't let me see them. :(

    I've run out of ideas at this point. ;(

    Code
    RPi4:~ # cat /storage/.kodi/userdata/passwords.xml 
<passwords>
    <path>
        <from pathversion="1">smb://NAS/MEDIA</from>
        <to pathversion="1">smb://username:password@NAS/MEDIA</to>
    </path>
</passwords>

    ^ The authentication process has evolved and you probably need to create a file like that so that older library references that don't include the authentication data are mapped to include it.

    Same problem here, but interestingly only on the raspberry platform

    The intel platform (which has other issues) this works as expected.

    On the pi platfrom, when I try to add the source, it keeps complaining, even though I can actually see folder contents.

    There is also some weird dialog about folder preferences asking for user/password but never accepts the password. When this happen, the log comes with the usual 'permission denied' message, as if kodi is simply ignorinhg the password/ cannot save it...

    Also, I found 3 places where media sources can be added , userdata/ mediasources.xml, sources.xml and passwords,xml.

    Are these still valid, if so why 3, and are they actually editable (e.g. via ssh) while kodi is running?

    Thx,

    I never heard of mediasources.xml before, but sources.xml (where you define sources) and passwords.xml (password mappings to sources) are definitely valid. In the past I had creds in sources.xml but at some point that stopped working and the mapping (as posted above) was needed.