[zumaval]

Just found an interesting article on kodi about using Homegroups and how it can screw with SMB sharing.
Do you folks think this might be what I'm running into since I do have a homegroup established?
http://kodi.wiki/view/SMB/Windows
Specifically the 'Share with' method.

Anyways, I'm going to try and follow the instructions to remove the homegroup and set up sharing without it. We'll see how that goes.

Thanks again for all your help. It's really great to know there are people out there who actually give a crap.