SMB stopped working

EXaXXion · March 6, 2024 at 3:52 PM

I was running 11.0.6 without problems on an tiny pc with Core i3 7.th gen.

Since yesterday I cannot access the media on my NAS directly over smb with the name of the server. I only get a connection time out failure.

When I tried to connect over the IP-Adress I can get a new network connection and access the media, but I lost all my progress, what I have watched and what not.

I hope you could solve my problem.

**chewitt** · March 6, 2024 at 4:41 PM

If you scraped media into the library from smb://nas/share/files, this is the path stored in the library. If the NAS is now accessed using smb://192.168.1.10/share/files the path is different and Kodi treats this like new files.

First, try this to see if it restores name resolution:

Code

echo "192.168.1.10        servername servername.local" >> /storage/.config/hosts.conf
reboot

Or experiment with path substition https://kodi.wiki/view/Path_substitution

EXaXXion · March 6, 2024 at 6:43 PM

I haven't put the media into the library. I played it directly from the NAS.

I will try, if I could restore the name resolution.

EXaXXion · March 6, 2024 at 6:47 PM

When I look at your reply, I see that you wrote smb://nas/share . I don't know why, but I saw in the serverlist, that there was a "/" more. In my list it looks like smb:///nas/share .

I have not changed it, but could that be a problem, too?

**chewitt** · March 7, 2024 at 9:55 AM

smb:// would be a valid URI, smb:/// would not be valid. Edit the file and reboot, see what happens.