[shadow_cs]

Hi everyone,

recently I had to re-install my NAS due to a drive failure, I chose to use a stronger password but then I started having issue while trying to show share folder contents in Kodi. I always get Operation not permitted error.

Things I tried and did't work:

• Changing SMB versions
  
• Deleting the old shares and adding new ones (I didn't delete the old Sources yet)
  
• Updating the passwords.xml 
  

Changing the password back did work, although this is not a solution I'm happy with.

Am I missing something? Do I need to remove the old Sources and register new ones? Will this fix my issue? I don't want to fully re-index the library unless absolutely necessary.

From other threads I figured out, the Operation not permitted error is usually related to a system problem (SMB versions and encryption), which is obviously not my case. It also looks to me that Kodi is reusing the old password regardless of what I type in the box while adding a new share. What is the correct course of action?

My Kodi version is 18.7 running on Android TV. I also tried installing it on my phone and it worked just fine there.

Thanks a lot for any help or insight.

[DarrenHill]

Check also sources.xml in the userdata (wiki) folder (same one as where passwords.xml lives).

The old password may have been baked into the source URL in there.

[shadow_cs]

Check also sources.xml in the userdata (wiki) folder (same one as where passwords.xml lives).

The old password may have been baked into the source URL in there.

Thanks Darren, I did peek thought the sources.xml when searching the settings (I also do remember seeing it on the forums, mentioning what you just did about older settings having the password there). I looked there just to verify, no passwords though, looks like I have the newer version of settings format.

To be clear I did restart Kodi after modifying passwords.xml, is it the only file where passwords are stored? Are there any escaping, I do have special characters in my new password and I didn't know if some special treatment is needed. Should I try alphanumeric characters only to be extra safe? Hmm maybe I'll just copy passwords.xml from my Android phone.

[shadow_cs]

Check also sources.xml in the userdata (wiki) folder (same one as where passwords.xml lives).

The old password may have been baked into the source URL in there.

Thanks Darren, I did peek thought the sources.xml when searching the settings (I also do remember seeing it on the forums, mentioning what you just did about older settings having the password there). I looked there just to verify, no passwords though, looks like I have the newer version of settings format.

To be clear I did restart Kodi after modifying passwords.xml, is it the only file where passwords are stored? Are there any escaping, I do have special characters in my new password and I didn't know if some special treatment is needed. Should I try alphanumeric characters only to be extra safe? Hmm maybe I'll just copy passwords.xml from my Android phone.

Ohhh it needs to be escaped using URI escaping (with %xx), I'll retry and check if this helps.

[shadow_cs]

Check also sources.xml in the userdata (wiki) folder (same one as where passwords.xml lives).

The old password may have been baked into the source URL in there.

Thanks Darren, I did peek thought the sources.xml when searching the settings (I also do remember seeing it on the forums, mentioning what you just did about older settings having the password there). I looked there just to verify, no passwords though, looks like I have the newer version of settings format.

To be clear I did restart Kodi after modifying passwords.xml, is it the only file where passwords are stored? Are there any escaping, I do have special characters in my new password and I didn't know if some special treatment is needed. Should I try alphanumeric characters only to be extra safe? Hmm maybe I'll just copy passwords.xml from my Android phone.

Ohhh it needs to be escaped using URI escaping (with %xx), I'll retry and check if this helps.

Ok that did it.

Takeaways:

• Kodi uses single password per SMB server (multiple sources on a single SMB, cannot connect to multiple accounts).
  
• It is impossible to change the password directly in Kodi UI.
  
• The password can be updated by changing it in passwords.xml
  • Kodi needs to be restarted afterwards.
    
  • URIs (which include passwords) in passwords.xml need to be properly escaped.
    • [font]Preferably use passwords without special characters in them, do be extra safe use alphanumeric characters only.[/font]
      

[font]Would you consider adding more human-friendly way to change SMB share (and maybe other) passwords directly in Kodi?[/font]

[DarrenHill]

Thread marked solved.

[iostrym]

hello,

i think I have the same problem.

but I don't know how to modify file you are speaking about. because I'm using a mibox where there is no text editor

[iostrym]

hello,

i think I have the same problem.

but I don't know how to modify file you are speaking about. because I'm using a mibox where there is no text editor

using xfile I can modify the file on my mibox but not an easy job