[Norbit]

Background story

Hi I'm new to SMB sharing so I know zero about how to troubleshoot it. I was hoping to find some guidance in here.
I have happily been using NFS sharing for a year until Windows 10 with its UEFI mumbo jumbo made Linux dual booting into a rocket science.
I'm no rocket scientist and to make a long story short I tried to solve that by using Virtualbox with Windows 10 as host and Linux Mint 18 as guest. But in the end it seems like NFS cannot work with such a Windows/Linux Shared folder setup.

Exporting a shared folder with NFS
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=52373
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5295
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Checklist 9 - Current problem

* [Windows 10] is my SMB Server where I shared my Media folder by following this guide.
http://kodi.wiki/view/SMB/Windows#Windows_10
* [Linux Mint 17 Qiana] is my Intel NUC setup connected to my HDMI TV.

My problem starts at step 4. When adding SMB sources I can't see my Windows 10 host.
"Step 4: Adding an SMB source within Kodi"
I tried to solve that problem by manually typing in this smb://ARCON/Media.
Do I need to worry about upper and lower case letters? Do I need to think about / and \ since the source is a Windows file system?

When I followed the guide it only created a password. When Kodi asks for SMB credentials it also wants user info. What user should I type? Can it be blank since I didn't create a user with this password?
http://kodi.wiki/view/SMB/Windows#Windows_10

I will post the other checklist info in separate post for easier digest.

[Norbit]

Kodi checklist

4.
Linux Mint 17 Qiana
based on ->
Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
kernel: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic

5.
GPU: Mesa DRI Intel ® Haswell Mobile

6.
http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Install_Kodi_for_Linux

Code:

sudo apt-get remove kodi kodi-bin kodi-data

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi

7.
Build: Kodi 16.1 Git: c327c53
Compiled: Apr 24 2016

8.
Default skin, no addons. Only Yahoo weather.

9.
Detailed instructions to reproduce the problem. See first post.

[Norbit]

I also tried this guide but could not make things work since the instructions were not very specific. I tried different variations of input but no success.
http://kodi.wiki/view/Adding_video_sourc...te_sources

[spelled]

I have better success sharing folders using NFS in windows. You can d/l hanewin NFS server. It's what I use and it shows up on all my kodi machines with no problem.

[Norbit]

My Antivirus protection says that nfs1221.exe install file is a malware. Is there any GNU open source alternatives for this program?

[GLotsapot]

I can tell you exactly what your issue is. By default, Windows 7 and up no longer allow unauthenticated users to access SMB shares, so it's prompting you for credentials to access your Windows computer. Additionally, by default, the Windows SMB server service also will not allow credentials that don't have a password.
There are 2 quick resolutions to resolve this.

1. Ensure that your user account has a password on it, and then use your Windows username/password when Kodi/XMBC asks
   
2. Create a second user account on your PC that has a username and password and use those when it asks
   

There is a more advanced way to change the default settings that windows uses for it's SMB sharing to enable accounts with blank passwords across the network using GPEDIT.MSC, but I'm not up for writing a TODO right this minute. If enough people want it, maybe I will... but simply adding a password to your user account is a pretty easy solution without lowering your network security.