[jan-g]

Can you post a debug log when accessing your windows machine from Kodi. Also, can you enable SMB component debug logging, thanks.

here you go: http://sprunge.us/eFEQ

trying to access two shares in file mode (getting screen to enter user and psw) and trying to play a tv show in library mode (getting file no longer exists)

The log shows permission failures when accessing smb://JAN-PC/Complete/

About the only thing I can suggest right now is to try:

Code:

sed /usr/config/samba.conf.sample -e 's/name resolve order.*/& wins/' >/storage/.config/samba.conf

then reboot and see if it's any better (I'm not really expecting it to help as it's the server config, but this is samba so who knows).

I've been testing this updated samba server and client against Windows 7 Pro without any issues so far.

No, doesn't help (it did create a "samba.conf)
Fired up my Win7 Ultimate machine and this shows the same behavior as Win8.1
I'm not using user/psw on my shares , and I share with "everyone" with full access.

edit: restarted the server and SMB component debug logging was enabled.