[badaas]

Okay, your suggestion worked, smb is working fine now with a clean install of build #1022 this time. I'm still not sure why #1017 just worked as is, but at least now I can use newer builds.

At the end of the day, it was something simple. Thank you Milhouse

That's good, thanks. Maybe something went a little wonky in #1018-#1021, though not sure what or why, and the #1022 clean build straightened it out.

Hopefully @badaas will also see better results with #1022.

Same issue on 1022, interestingly I noticed my 1017 didn't have the samba.config and was working fine..

Let me try pathsubs or passwords.xml.
Could you build 1022 with 1017 kodi? Just to test, or is that a royal pita?