[Vimes]

Thanks for that. I might need to use that if I figure out....

I had installed the latest build here and a working LE 8.01 and ran into issues, it would not recognise any Windows SMB shares.
I then hard reset it and started to add shares via the wired Ethernet connection. Again Windows SMB shares can't be seen nor added. Using the Media servers name or IP address is not helping.

Swapping the card over and going back to the LE 8.01 build and all is well with the Windows SMB shares being there and others can be added, as to what is seen on the network.

I will need to take a look at this again when I have a little time.

With these test builds, which currently use Samba4 and allow Samba to negotiate SMB3 connections in preference to SMB1, you might need to force SMB1 if your server is buggy or misconfigured and claims it supports SMB3 when it doesn't.

See: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid2560049

Edit: SMB1 is a security risk. Just ask the NHS...

That gave me a very big clue, thanks.

I used an elevated command prompt on the Server to enable SMB 2 (does 3 as well) and added a reg entry and used a poweshell command to set the smbserverconfiguration. Rebooted and now I have shares It does it from the name of the server as well, rather than from its IP address.
Still got things to sort tho to see how well it works

At least there is progress...!