Totally bewildered by SMB share

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    Totally bewildered by SMB share or mounting an attached external drive.
    First thank you all.I am new to LibreElec and Linux.
    With the information here and in the Kodi forum I have successfully installed Libreelec on my chromebox.
    I have Tvheadend 4.2 runningI have EPG working, recording and time-shifting
    Wow, I thought Tvheadend and the EPG was going to fry my brain in its shell.
    I am totally lost with how to mount a smb share or an attached external drive to record to.
    Most of what I have read is over my head.
    I have searched and read here as well as both the kodi and tvheadend forums.
    I have aMac Mini OSX 10.8.5 hosts my sharesChromebox with LibreElec 7.95.1 and tvheadend 4.2
    Any guidance is greatly appreciated
    thank you

    Edited once, last by mxlance (January 17, 2017 at 5:50 PM).

    • Official Post

    Are you asking how to share a drive under MAC OSX or how to access it from LE?

    If LE. Go to Videos --> Add source --> Windows SMB -> Select server address (NB: This may not work as there was an issue with SMB in LE 7.95.x) so add it directly as smb://<server address>/<folder>

    Thank you for the reply
    I can add the shares in kodi as a sources no problem.
    That is working great.
    I need to mount a share that tvheadend will recored to.
    I would prefer a location on my networked drives but even an attached external drive or sd card would help.
    I do not understand how to mount either in LibreElec so tvheadend can see it.
    Thank you

    Edited once, last by mxlance (January 17, 2017 at 5:58 PM).