SMB Problem - my home Windows 10 network cannot be accessed

**blueribb** · June 2, 2017 at 2:07 PM

Yesterday I tried to update the Hallmark addon by installing the latest version via it's zip file. When I selected "Windows Network SMB" to find my wired home network, nothing was there. I tried this on both my Intel NUC's running the latest LE 8.02. I had to manually add another network location (smb://kitchen-pc) in order to see my Windows 10 network. I wonder if this was caused by the recent upgrade from LE 8.01.

How would I delete the manually added location if I wanted to at a later date ?

The reason I switched from OE to LE was due to a similar SMB problem. OE Version 8.0 wouldn't allow access to my Windows 10 network using SMB file sharing. I waited patiently for the OE crew to address the issue but only workarounds were offered. I decided to move to LE at that point.

**DaVu** · June 5, 2017 at 1:07 AM Official Post

if you add a source, that can be deleted easily by opening the context menu (key "c" on a keyboard) and select "delete source".

**blueribb** · June 5, 2017 at 4:05 AM

Thanks DaVu. I found out that I could do that in the Add Media list but not the Add on with Zip file list.

**DaVu** · June 5, 2017 at 8:50 AM Official Post

if you enter the "install from zip file"-section, the upcoming window is not kind of a source. It's more a file browser where you are able to browse to the folder you downloaded/stored the zip-file to. Those aren't sources like the ones you added in Kodi. Those are just folders that exist on your machine and therefore they can't be deleted by opening the context menu.

You might be able to delete specific folders on your system using Kodis file explorer. Therefore you need to add one of the parent folders as a source in Kodis file explorer. You have to enable "Allow file renaming and deletion" in settings->media settings->general. Then move over to Kodis file explorer, navigate to one of the subfolders from the sources-folder you added before and bring up the context menu and delete that folder. After you did all your deletions you just have to remove the source again.

Note: removing/deleting a real source inside Kodi doesn't mean, that the folder, where the source points to, is completely deleted from the HDD. It's just not visible anymore inside Kodi.