[SparkyRedcar]

Hi all,

A constant issue I'm having with regards to a SMB shares on Kodi

Basically I'm sharing folders, on my Windows 10 PC and Mac.

However I'm finding the share very temperamental, sometimes when I go to SMB shares on any of my devices (Fire Stick, iOS, Mac) on Kodi the share shows the Workgroup and I have no problem navigating the first couple of folders, then all of a sudden, stuff will not show or show half a folder or even return errors, "Share not available" or "Invalid Argument" generally. This happens very often.

Now things I've tried following searches of the net are:

Increasing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters - IRPStackSize value.
Entering the address manually using both PC name and IP Address for each share.
Using username and password to authorise connection.

Initially I thought this was just a issue with the Fire Stick but I am having problems with the shares across all device regardless of whether there shared from the MAC or PC

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated, finding this very frustrating.

Thanks

[pagali]

I was having the same SMB problems on my Nvidia Shield. The following fix on my Windows 7 server immediately took care of the problem, it's been working great ever since.

http://kodi.wiki/view/SMB/Windows#Fixes

Be sure to back up your registry first.

[SparkyRedcar]

Thank you very much for your advice, I've tried changing these settings in the Registry and no real success.

Like I say, sometimes it will load directory information fine others it won't load any sub folder information at all and other times it just returns "Invalid Argument"

[levi.baker88]

What version of Kodi are you running?

[SparkyRedcar]

16.1 Javis - I did have the issue on previous versions also

[Derek]

Is the issue from PC to mac or mac to PC or both just I have this setup within my network and stragely I have the same problem I think as you when using wifi but when I wired at 1gb all is well, let me know your setup and i'll do my best to help you msg me if I don't get back to you buddy just a bit busy with work just now.

[medelgadof]

The problema is Kodi. Use on your M8 box Kodi 14.2. Download it from the internet. I hope that Kodi team give a solution for SMB Access from Kodi 16.1 and Krypton.

[cd2022]

I don't know if it helps but I got to throw it out there : SPMC has a release 16.1.0 where you can force SMB v1 (might solve windows connection issues) according to Koying, the dev.