[mkohman]

I don't know if there's a proper "fix" for the issue, or if anyone else has it. In another application that I develop for, any time that smb gives us trouble (we use WinAPI, so there not much we can actually do about it), we recommend not using smb at all as far the app is concerned.
Map the share to a drive letter, then Kodi will see it as any other drive, just with slower seek speeds (as it's over network). Unfortunately, that means that you'll need to hack your DB or rescan, but it should work

Thank you.. How do I actually do that? I mean how do I map a drive on kodi which option is it under? Would appreciate some help please thank you.