Posts by pwiggy

I've had this problem with both 10.0.1 and 10.0.2 on my older Samsung TV. I'm happy to report that with the latest update (10.0.3) the problem seems to be resolved (at least with my TV, a Samsung LN-46A550P3).

Quote from milhouse

This is what passwords.xml is for, which is automatically created when Kodi saves your passwords.

If you're not being prompted (which is odd) then you should manually add your username/password in /storage/.kodi/userdata/passwords.xml.

If you don't have a passwords.xml then you should create it so it looks like this:

Code

<passwords>
    <path>
        <from pathversion="1">smb://192.168.1.102/Usenet/</from>
        <to pathversion="1">smb://YOURUSERNAME:[email protected]/Usenet/</to>
    </path>
</passwords>

Replace YOURUSERNAME and YOURPASSWORD with your username and password

Thanks for the tip. Things were working OK until I tried playing music which failed. In the end, I created the following passwords.xml file:

<passwords>
    <path>
        <from pathversion="1">smb://192.168.1.102</from>
        <to pathversion="1">smb://username:[email protected]/</to>
    </path>
    <path>
        <from pathversion="1">smb://medialibrary</from>
        <to pathversion="1">smb://username:password@medialibrary/</to>
    </path>
    <path>
        <from pathversion="1">smb://MEDIALIBRARY</from>
        <to pathversion="1">smb://username:password@MEDIALIBRARY/</to>
    </path>
</passwords>

(note that "MEDIALIBRARY" is the computer name of 192.168.1.102. All my music was originally scanned to the library using the computer name, whereas my video files use the IP address.)

The two versions of "medialibrary" appear necessary as it looks like samba is case-sensitive (doesn't work with just the lowercase version).

So basically the above give me the "root paths" which all my media files are based on, and the credentials to use.

As long as I have the permissions for the specified user set up on the Windows machine, it looks like this works.

Again, thanks for your help.

milhouse, thanks. I've done as you've suggested, however I have to manually remove and add all of my sources (entering the username/password) in order for it to work. I'm never prompted to enter a username/password when I attempt to play a video or music file. Once I've manually recreated a source it seems to work, but this is a lot of work.

Where can you set the max protocol to "none"? In the LibreElec settings it only gives you the options of SMB1, SMB2 and SMB3.

I'll have to play around with this a bit more but it's looking a bit tricky...

Do you think support for anonymous access will be implemented in LibreElec in the future (or is that a windows/samba thing)?

Thanks for your help.

Today I upgraded both my RPi2 and RPi3 from 8.0.2 to 8.2.0.1. Immediately afterwards, I could not access my samba shares (on a Windows 10 machine). Everything was working flawlessly on 8.0.2.

When I attempt to navigate to the shares via the "Files" section of Videos, I get a pop-up saying "Operation not permitted" (and sometimes after that, "Could not connect to network server"). If I attempt to browse (selecting Windows SMB share), the workgroups on my network do not appear at all. If I try to enter a new source by selecting "Add network location" in the browse feature and enter the IP address of the server (192.168.1.102) and the share name, again I receive "Operation not permitted."

Attempting to navigate to one of my existing shares (smb:\\192.168.1.102\Usenet) shows only this in the debug log:

19:28:12.867 T:1945554944   DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory (smb://192.168.1.102/Usenet/)
19:28:12.883 T:1495266208   ERROR: SMBDirectory->GetDirectory: Unable to open directory : 'smb://192.168.1.102/Usenet'
19:28:15.300 T:1945554944   ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting smb://192.168.1.102/Usenet/
19:28:15.311 T:1945554944   ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(smb://192.168.1.102/Usenet/) failed

The entry in sources.xml for the above share is:

        <source>
            <name>Usenet</name>
            <path pathversion="1">smb://192.168.1.102/Usenet/</path>
            <allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
        </source>

I've tried playing with the "max" and "min" SMB in LibreElec configuration (min SMB1 to max SMB3 and all combinations thereof) but nothing helps.

My router is a Netgear Nighthawk R7000, if that's of any relevance.

My Kodi database is a MySQL database on the same machine (192.168.1.102) so connecting to the machine isn't an issue, only the samba connection.

I don't think this is an issue with my network configuration, etc. as it worked without fail before the upgrade. Reverting back to 8.0.2 solves the problem.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Patrick