2021-03-02, 00:49
(2021-03-02, 00:39)damorsoft Wrote:I reserve all my IP's in the router, that way if power goes out all the devices are re-issued the same IP's. The other thing I do is instead of WORKGROUP as a domain, I use LOCAL for all devices. This has worked for me from Windows 95 to current. My Win 10 can browse all my shares on the NAS or any device on my lan.(2021-02-26, 00:00)EventDriven Wrote: Here is what I did to make this work. As others said, I needed to reference via IP instead of server name. Basically, I exported my library as a single file and changed all references from my server name to IP. I did the same in passwords.xml and sources.xml. Finally I copied the changed xml files, re-imported the library and then cleaned the library. Maybe there's a simpler way that will work for some but this is what worked for me. Here are the steps I used in a little more detail.This is all well and done, it works, I had to put a password in my windows sign-on but it does workAs I said, maybe there's an easier way that will work for some but this is what worked for me.
- Make sure your NAS has a static IP
- In SMB settings in Kodi, change the minimum required version to SMB1 if you don't currently have a value there
- Go into file explorer in Kodi and add a source to connect to your NAS share via IP. For example for SMB it would be smb://123.123.1.123/my_share or something like that. I think you need to use a username and password. In any case, I am.
- Navigate to your profiles directory. Copy passwords.xml and sources.xml to your share.
- Backup your library to your NAS as a single file
- Make a backup copy of all the stuff you copied to your NAS in case you need to restore them: the sources, passwords and the library backup.
- In each of passwords.xml, sources.xml and videodb.xml in your backup folder, using a text editor find and replace your_server_name with the IP address of your server, e.g, 123.123.1.123.
- Copy passwords.xml and settings.xml back to Kodi and restart Kodi.
- Import your library by pointing to the backup folder where you edited videodb.xml.
- Clean you library to remove duplicate entries that are referencing your server name instead of IP. This might take awhile if you have a large library so don't panic.
The elephant in the room.....
IP ==smb://123.123.1.123/my_share or something like that
If you are on a router and the router is shut down ie power failure. Texas are you listening.
The router assigns a new ip to the server and the smb://123.123.1.123/my_share is no longer a share.
So set up all shares over or
-you will have to set up a static IP on all the serving boxes.
Have you read the instructions to do this with win10
So really all this effort just to run a buggy version of KODI..
18.9 is looking better all the time.
Best if Kodi just works the way we like it.