so after 6 hours of trying to get this to work, and trying to understand what was written in the blog regarding this problem, I've stumbled on the answer. I use Arch linux KDE on three laptops, and am running libreelec on raspberry pi. Normally, I could open my file manager (Dolphin in my case) to to "Network" and browse for the directories shared by my RPi. Unfortunately, we can no longer do that. So I thought "why not go to smb:// then complete the line with the ip address of my pi?" And,, BAM!! there were the directories, right where they should be. I can't imagine why anyone didn't just say to do that, except that to the average maniac, brainiac developer, that would be an obvious given. And as such, doesn't even bear mentioning. So, for example in my case I open my file browser (assuming you have the necessary stuff installed to interact with samba to begin with) and type:
smb://192.168.1.3
My god....it's over....it's finally over