[ausom65000]

Hi Team

I am setting up a community kind video on demand and I have the following

I have installed kodi v17.5 on win server 2012, downloaded a video and added to my video library the next thing i want to do is access from my win 7 pc connected on the same network,
I have downloaded vlc but doesn't seem to work with it,

How do I access kodi from external player or over the network?

Please help and i thank you in advance

[User 325245]

Kodi is not a server, to the best to my knowledge, and is more like a client. That means your videos should be on the server and Kodi on the PCs, not the other way around.

[Klojum]

the next thing i want to do is access from my win 7 pc connected on the same network, I have downloaded vlc but doesn't seem to work with it

That sounds like a network and a vlc problem to me. None of which is a direct Kodi issue as far as I can tell.

I'm a little puzzled as to why you would install Kodi on a server machine?
Kodi itself is first and foremost a client application. And designed to also play multimedia files from servers.

Serving a file via Samba should be Windows Server's main feature. Check the SMB version used, as Kodi recently went to SMB v2. Your server may need settings adjusted.

[ausom65000]

Kodi is not a server, to the best to my knowledge, and is more like a client. That means your videos should be on the server and Kodi on the PCs, not the other way around.

I though it was other way round, so how do i direct kodi on my client pc to connect to the server folder with the movies, thanks for your reply

[Atreyu]

Just share your files using a sharing protocol like smb..?

[ausom65000]

Just share your files using a sharing protocol like smb..?

Thank you so much, did that and its working like a champ , for androids and ipad viewing is there an app i can download and set up to my server just like the windows machines?

[ausom65000]

I fixed it, thanks all for your contribution

[jackyle123]

Kodi không phải là máy chủ vì vậy bạn không thể làm điều này, bạn nên tải video lên máy tính để bàn và kết nối mạng sẽ tốt hơn.

[DarrenHill]

Please post in English, not Vietnamese

Translation:

Kodi is not a server so you can not do this, you should upload the video to the desktop and the network connection will be better.

[Atreyu]

Just share your files using a sharing protocol like smb..?

Thank you so much, did that and its working like a champ , for androids and ipad viewing is there an app i can download and set up to my server just like the windows machines?

You could, but that’s still thinking server2server.
The widely used method is server<->clients.
This way you can have a centralized library to be shared for all clients. Install kodi on your mentioned clients, done.

Have fun!