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Hi everyone!

I had the same problem but not with Windows. On Windows everything works fine but on my Macbook when trying to connect to my Synology NAS I got operation not permitted. I do not have the same password on my Macbook as on my NAS.

I solved this by editing the password.xml (in the userdata lib) and added my account manually.

Eg.

<passwords>
<path>
<from pathversion="1">smb://iptothenas/tv</from>
<to pathversion="1">smb://myusername:mypassword@iptothenas/tv/</to>
</path>
</passwords>
You probably see some other SMBs there so just copy one <PATH> </PATH> entry and modify it.

Works like a charm.

Don't forget to have Kodi closed while doing it.

I hope this helps!
/M

I struggled with this problem for a couple of days and finally resolved it.

I'm running a domain, and none of my previous OSs have required it, but 2012 R2 appears to need a domain specifier in the SMB string.

<source>
<path>smb://domain;username:password@computername_or_ipaddress/sharename/path</path>
</source>

Somewhere along the line, I also enabled SMB1 support - I assume that was required as well.