LibreELEC 8 won't connect to SAMBA shares

t3rminal · March 22, 2017 at 7:25 AM

I installed a fresh copy of LibreELEC 8 yesterday and have an issue where it won't connect to my SAMBA shares. When I choose SMB -> WORKGROUP I receive the error 'connection timeout'. Nothing has changed with my SAMBA setup and I have no issues connecting with my Mac or another installation of LibreELEC 7.0.3.

I can connect to the LibreELEC 8 installation via SSH no problem and I can then SSH from there to my media server no problem so there is nothing wrong with my network connection either.

kodi.log

I had to post the log to PASTEBIN because if I include it in the post, it's over the character limit.

Thanks, t3rminal.

Maverick · March 23, 2017 at 10:41 PM

I'm in the same situation as yourself. I'm currently on a clean install of Windows 10 Pro and LibreELEC 8.0/Kodi 17.0. I can't access my Windows 10 SMB share using my Intel NUC NUC5PPYH, but I can if I use my Android Phone using Kodi 17.1.

I did notice a fix for SMB shares on Android, so I'm not sure if the same patch will apply for LibreELEC 8.1??? Because before the patch, using Kodi 17.0, accessing SMB shares on Android was not possible for me, until after I installed 17.1.

t3rminal · March 23, 2017 at 11:01 PM

Quote from Maverick

I'm in the same situation as yourself. I'm currently on a clean install of Windows 10 Pro and LibreELEC 8.0/Kodi 17.0. I can't access my Windows 10 SMB share using my Intel NUC NUC5PPYH, but I can if I use my Android Phone using Kodi 17.1.

I did notice a fix for SMB shares on Android, so I'm not sure if the same patch will apply for LibreELEC 8.1??? Because before the patch, using Kodi 17.0, accessing SMB shares on Android was not possible for me, until after I installed 17.1.

I have got it working but not like it used to. I had to manually enter the samba path using the servers IP. Using its hostname would just time out.

Maverick · March 23, 2017 at 11:58 PM

Quote from t3rminal

I have got it working but not like it used to. I had to manually enter the samba path using the servers IP. Using its hostname would just time out.

Yap, that did the trick, I had to enter my username and password. I know some have that part off, but I like it on in my case.

Thanks

trent · March 24, 2017 at 12:08 AM

Samba is broken for some users in 17 (especially on a clean installation, )
HOW TO:FIX SMB on Android?

Fix or workaround seems to be in 17.1 so be patient and update LE when available.

Maverick · April 4, 2017 at 7:29 PM

Problem solved.

I did a clean install of LibreELEC 8.0.1 and SMB is working normally again. So, the newest official build based on Kodi 17.1 fixed it. Hopefully @t3rminal has had similar success with the newest official build, or anyone else for that matter.

metalboy4 · April 6, 2017 at 4:06 AM

Quote from Maverick

Problem solved.

I did a clean install of LibreELEC 8.0.1 and SMB is working normally again. So, the newest official build based on Kodi 17.1 fixed it. Hopefully @t3rminal has had similar success with the newest official build, or anyone else for that matter.

Im on a brand new install on a Raspberry Pi 3, cannot connect to SMB on my mac mini. Folders are shared, guest account has access. I've done everything I can think of. I notice a work around alluded to above, any specifics?

I receive broken pipe error.

**milhouse** · April 7, 2017 at 5:19 AM

I believe the change/fix is to the smb lock directory. If you're using a clean install of 8.0.1 this probably won't affect you, however just in case please post the contents of /storage/.smb/smb.conf

metalboy4 · April 7, 2017 at 12:52 PM

Quote from milhouse

I believe the change/fix is to the smb lock directory. If you're using a clean install of 8.0.1 this probably won't affect you, however just in case please post the contents of /storage/.smb/smb.conf

Is this location hidden? I found the smb.config.sample not smb.conf
Someone at Kodi forums is saying smb on mac is flawed. I need to install smbup.

**milhouse** · April 7, 2017 at 3:20 PM

Yes it's hidden (all files/directories starting with a dot are hidden in Linux). However you can access it with ssh.

No idea about the Mac, sorry.

**chewitt** · April 8, 2017 at 6:13 AM Official Post

MacOS uses Apple's own ~~implementation~~ interpretation of Samba which historically (back in MacOS 10.7 days) was quite broken and smbup was the proven solution. I'm not sure that advice is still valid for current MacOS versions; a little Google search doesn't turn up anyone singing it's praises on a current release and I can see statements that it's not tested on 10.12 etc. - I'd avoid that route for now.

metalboy4 · April 8, 2017 at 5:54 PM

I installed SMBup, I don't know if I should sing praises or not but it is working without any issues so far.
My install would t go through the first time on the mac but I used the uninstall option and reinstalled without any problem.
I'm on a Mac mini with the latest updates from apple. Not sure OS number at this time but think it's 10.12.4.

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rraod · October 31, 2017 at 5:38 AM

smb.conf location should be in /etc/samba/ folder.

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