Can't get Kodi to see my LAN
DodgerBlue
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#1
2017-06-26, 21:52
Hello,

I'm running Windows10 on my HTPC w/Kodi 17.3 as well as two pc's on my LAN, one that houses all of my hard drives with movies/music and the other PC having a misc video hard drive. I have all the network sharing settings dialed in all three pc's and each one (including the HTPC) can see/play/edit all the videos/music files residing on all of the computers. However, even though I can open/edit/play any of the video/music files that are on the network on the HTPC via the Windows GUI, I cannot get Kodi to see any of the networked drives/computers. It simply shows "smb://" and nothing else when I try to point it to a video/music source on network. Why isn't it seeing the network?

What am I doing wrongHuh??
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Karellen
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#2
2017-06-26, 23:09
Have you had a look through this... http://kodi.wiki/view/Adding_video_sourc...te_sources

Notice any difference with what is in there and what you have done?
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scott967
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2017-06-27, 22:52
Did you recently turn off SMB v1 on your windows machines for file serving or client? I haven't been able to determine how Kodi does SMB when running on windows. It seems like on Linux / LE platform you can configure the SMB version, but it might not be configurable on android, don't know about Windows.

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DodgerBlue
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2017-06-28, 04:07
(2017-06-26, 23:09)Karellen Wrote: Have you had a look through this... http://kodi.wiki/view/Adding_video_sourc...te_sources

Notice any difference with what is in there and what you have done?

Thanks Karellen. I went thru the guide when I originally set things up. I assumed Kodi would see my networked/shared folders like it had in the past (I think I started originally with Kodi 13 or something like that). I'm not sure why it doesn't now. I was able to simply type in the smb network locations manually and it worked that way. It's a little more work than I wanted to do but when you have no other choice...... Any ideas why Kodi won't automatically browse and display my network locations?
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Powerhouse
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2017-06-28, 04:54
I believe the fully qualified SMB name was fixed in 17.1 and 17.2 but may be broken again in 17.3, with a possible fix in 17.4?
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