2016-02-21, 02:29
So I've been a XBMC/Kodi user for god knows how long now. For the better part of a decade I've been using a gaming rig (windows 7) I built in '09 as a dual purpose media center for Kodi. I've never had an issue with sharing files to various devices in my home that couldn't be overcome, the one currently used the most is a laptop with windows 7 but I did try out windows 10 on it before and I had no issues with it then either. I reverted that back to windows 7 because I really just prefer it. Android phones, a tablet, they all work flawlessly too.
I recently built a new high end gaming rig and of course put windows 10 on it for directx 12 support. It works blazingly fast, and it's hooked up to the network through an old WRT610N router using DD-WRT as an ethernet bridge to my main router. I should note that this is what the media server (the windows 7 rig with all my media/hard drives) was hooked up to previously and had no problems with sharing. I put the old media server rig near the router wired directly into it, and while I was at everything did a completely clean install of Windows 7 to that machine since I added an SSD to it.
I can still access the SMB shares hosted on that media server with my windows 7 laptop, android phones, and tablet via Kodi. I however, for the life of me, cannot get the new Windows 10 Desktop which will be my primary means of watching it since it has a gorgeous 1440p monitor, to see or access any SMB shares. When I go into the add sources, it never shows any other machines, not my desktop media server, or my laptop which it should also be showing. I also can't manually add the network location, it tells me it's not available.
I can, however, access all those files from windows explorer, copy, transfer, everything. My computer itself has no issues accessing them or communicating with that machine, and it's all quite fast since that ethernet bridge gets 60Mbps over the LAN. I keep seeing about Ipv6, it is enabled and has been, though disabled it to see, same thing. Oh, plex works fine too, but I really, really, really, really don't want to give up on Kodi. Call me old fashioned, but there's nothing out there better and likely never will be.
I've looked up numerous solutions on these forums, tried them, none have worked. I've tried numerous versions of Kodi, mostly Isengard and the Jarvis RC's, but today also the final version of Jarvis and none have worked. I tried clean installs of BOTH PC's now as well. I tried editing the files, registry hacks, all of it. I've tried every configuration I can think of, with a microsoft account (now currently am without because I really loathe having that on my PC). No matter what, my new desktop cannot access, or for that matter even see, the Windows 7 SMB shares via Kodi alone.
Please help?
I recently built a new high end gaming rig and of course put windows 10 on it for directx 12 support. It works blazingly fast, and it's hooked up to the network through an old WRT610N router using DD-WRT as an ethernet bridge to my main router. I should note that this is what the media server (the windows 7 rig with all my media/hard drives) was hooked up to previously and had no problems with sharing. I put the old media server rig near the router wired directly into it, and while I was at everything did a completely clean install of Windows 7 to that machine since I added an SSD to it.
I can still access the SMB shares hosted on that media server with my windows 7 laptop, android phones, and tablet via Kodi. I however, for the life of me, cannot get the new Windows 10 Desktop which will be my primary means of watching it since it has a gorgeous 1440p monitor, to see or access any SMB shares. When I go into the add sources, it never shows any other machines, not my desktop media server, or my laptop which it should also be showing. I also can't manually add the network location, it tells me it's not available.
I can, however, access all those files from windows explorer, copy, transfer, everything. My computer itself has no issues accessing them or communicating with that machine, and it's all quite fast since that ethernet bridge gets 60Mbps over the LAN. I keep seeing about Ipv6, it is enabled and has been, though disabled it to see, same thing. Oh, plex works fine too, but I really, really, really, really don't want to give up on Kodi. Call me old fashioned, but there's nothing out there better and likely never will be.
I've looked up numerous solutions on these forums, tried them, none have worked. I've tried numerous versions of Kodi, mostly Isengard and the Jarvis RC's, but today also the final version of Jarvis and none have worked. I tried clean installs of BOTH PC's now as well. I tried editing the files, registry hacks, all of it. I've tried every configuration I can think of, with a microsoft account (now currently am without because I really loathe having that on my PC). No matter what, my new desktop cannot access, or for that matter even see, the Windows 7 SMB shares via Kodi alone.
Please help?