(2017-03-24, 23:24)jpdraven Wrote: Yes could be ownership issues. Are the files marked as hidden if you right click the folder in Windows and choose Properties?
This is weird to me because I use SMB with my Nvidia Shield TV, WD LIVE TV, and BOXEE BOX with zero issues. You should not have to share the folder either.
Now, this may sound stupid I know but HOW did you add the SMB Share? There is more than one way to do it via KODI.
Did you just go to SYSTEM- FILE MANAGER- ADD SOURCE and manually add it EX: smb://192.168.1.xxx/folder name?
Try SYSTEM- FILE MANAGER- ADD SOURCE- BROWSE from the Add File Source Window and see if Windows Network Share (SMB) works to auto find the share on your PC.
ALSO if you choose Add network Location you can chose Windows network (SMB) and manually add a username and password, which you may need to do in order to get read/write access to the files.
In the username and password fields try the account login to your Windows PC and the Password if you have one and see if this corrects it.
Sometimes this works because you are accessing the folder as your Windows User account. Sometimes it doesn't without a password, I can't remember if KODI wants a password to be set in this field.
Let us know! Good luck
(2017-03-25, 02:58)scott967 Wrote: On my home network I just set permissions on shared folders to "full control" for "Everyone".
scott s..
Not sure if I fully understand.
I add the share from the files section and then navigate to where the folder is in this case.: files>network>smb>192.168>passport drive>movies with a second share being "series" in the same passport drive.
Don't forget this works on my android smartphone ruining es file explorer network navigation; I can see and run all files. I understand you think it might be ownership? I can't see how this is possible as it works on Android so why not on kodi, which btw is Ethernet , my android device is wireless.
Fortunately I am experienced with networks so I created the share by right clicking the relevant folder to share it. I then went into share permissions and added the users "everyone" and "network"
I left the permissions at "read" couldn't see why they needed full control? And as I stated, android doesn't seem to have a problem.
Next I went into security to see if the folder was inheriting some permissions from a parent folder, in this case it would be the profile folder, in this case John doe>downloads where downloads is the share, john doe is the Windows logon. I found this bit tricky as there are two boxes, inherit from parent, which I UNCHECKED and another set permissions to CHILD objects (which I think means folders inside "downloads" I CHECKED this box.
Is this sufficient? I would think so but it doesn't show up on kodi, obviously, but I can view kodi from the pc and all files.