[Walrus]

I just upgraded to LibreElec 9 (Leia), and I can't seem to access my shares anymore. Fought for hours last night and gave up. Here is my setup:

Main HTPC is running Windows 7, serves as the media server (2x internal 4tb hard drives), mysql for syncing, and runs Kodi for our main TV.
Bedroom Chromebox running LibreElec standalone (not dual boot).

When the main HTPC and Chromebox were running the same version of Kodi 17 (I think 17.3) I had everything working fine. A few months ago I tried updating both to a newer version of 17, and ran into the same share problem.

Last night I upgraded the main HTPC to Kodi 18.1. Then I updated the Chromebox to LibreElec 9 (which I think is 18.0 ?). To do so, I had to backup, then do a fresh install due to the FAT partition being too small. When I tried restoring from the backup, it fails, says the backup is corrupt or something, so I'm having to re-setup everything. When I try to add a network location (\\192.168.1.107 which is the HTPC location) it fails/doesn't find anything. Is it due to the 18.1 and 18.0 not matching?

Or is there some problem with windows 7 and SMBv1?

kernel/driver bug in LE9.0, use workaround posted on wiki (edit /flash/syslinux.cfg)    

I have no idea what I am doing with putty/ssh, but I was able to follow the wiki and add the pci=nomsi after quiet. The wiki is wrong, the location was /flash/syslinux.cfg as you posted.

I still can't get it to work. Once I've added 192.168.1.107/Movies as a network location, it says success, but then asks me to lock the location and a username and password, and a slider bar to remember the location. I leave them blank, as on the windows machine I don't have a username or pass. I hit OK, and the window closes and reopens... endless loop.

Edit: Doing some reading, I'm thinking it might be because I don't have a username or password set to log in to the windows machine. An additional step is to create an additional local account on the windows machine (with username & password 'kodi'), and then under the main windows account, share the folders with the local 'kodi' account. Then.. on the LibreElec machine, add the network location and use 'kodi' for the username and password. I'll report back once I try this.