[Milhouse]

When I said only option that was the only option for SMB (which is the topic of this thread, isn't it). Kodi v17 did not have option to set version of SMB and v3 was default which you could not change.

With Kodi 17 you can add the following to .kodi/.smb/user.conf:

text:


client min protocol = SMB2

client max protocol = SMB3

However whether this will work depends entirely on the underlying OS and whether the Samba library provided with the OS supports SMB2 and/or SMB3. I've no idea what version of Samba is shipped with Android these days, but in the past it was a version that supported only SMB1. If your version of Samba doesn't recognise SMB2 or SMB3 protocols then it will just ignore the above settings (if SMB3 isn't recognised then maybe SMB2/SMB2 will work).

If you don't see the Samba client options in Kodi 17 on Android then presumably it's because at the time of the Kodi 17 release most Android installations supported only SMB1 (NT1 is the technically correct protocol name for SMB1) and providing SMB2/SMB3 options would have been pointless and/or confusing.

And unless the Android Kodi packager changed the default Kodi 17 Samba configuration, the default is to *not* configure a specific client max protocol and instead rely on the Samba library to negotiate the client max protocol (prior to Samba 4.8 this would mean only ever negotiating NT1, but with 4.8+ the Samba library will finally negotiate the highest protocol supported by both client and server, so ideally SMB3).