[FatBoyNotSoSlim]

Hey, long time lurker here. I've spent a good part of my weekend attempting to have Kodi Headless set up, trying both the linuxserver.io and celedhrim's docker images.
Both have the same issue for me, in that they can't find my network shares from what's populated in my Mysql database.
All the paths are 'smb://SERVERNAME/share/Movies' or 'smb://SERVERNAME/share/TV' etc. Single server name, not FQDN or IP address. This hasn't been an issue on Windows, nor the GUI version of Kodi on the same Ubuntu 14.04 LTS install. Using the same advancedsettings and sources files, both docker images fail with being unable to find that directory.

Kodi in my docker image has smb enable, so the issue is elsewhere.

YOu can enter the container to do some test , install some package etc ...

Code:

~$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS               NAMES
5d8e2020ee80        febaf9d95b44        "/opt/kodi-server/lib"   9 days ago          Up 4 days                               hungry_mccarthy

~$ docker exec -t -i 5d8e2020ee80 /bin/bash

Once inside container you can do what you want , like a normal ubuntu , install package , etc ...

Maybe this will help you to find the issue . (IMHO resolv or network)

Thanks for the information.

No doubt it's my set up that's the issue, seems like nothing I do can get linux versions of kodi to work with my SMB paths as they are. I've tried converting them into IP addresses (new database server, and new source files to the IP address) however the headless kodi still fails to find them. Next up is blaming my file server (Freenas serving up the files via CIFS) and permissions or passwords on accounts until I can finally get this working.