[blueribb]

Now that SMB version 1 is gone and remote-browsing a Windows Network for SMB shares is no longer possible, it might be nice to add an SMB Wizard of sorts to assist in setting up Windows shares. Kodi 17.5 broke all my SMB shares and required me to add credentials to my Windows shares and set-up all new paths. This was quite time consuming and not that self-explanatory. 

- I am running LE 8.2.0 (Kodi 17.5) on 2 Intel NUC's
- Wired Gigabit network
- Windows 10 computer w/latest Fall Creator's update holding all my media files

[Milhouse]

Kodi 17.5 broke all my SMB shares and required me to add credentials to my Windows shares and set-up all new paths.

Adding your credentials in passwords.xml would have allowed your existing paths to work unchanged. passwords.xml should be created automatically once you add credentials to the shares and when Kodi prompts for the username/password you enable the "Remember this password" option (which saves the username/password for the share in passwords.xml). You really don't want to hard code the username and password into the path for your share.

[ashlar]

What do you mean with "SMB Version 1 is gone"?

[jools5000]

The only real change is Windows 10 1709 (fall creators) build disables the SMB1.0 server by default, so using this version of Windows 10 as a server for Kodi will not allow Android clients to connect as Kodi/Android only support SMB 1

SMB 1 is old though and best practice is to disable it, ordinarily this should not stop network browsing etc as this works via a different mechanism.

[Milhouse]

SMB 1 is old though and best practice is to disable it

Yep, and leaving SMB1 enabled in the client weakens your overall security by allowing MITM attacks that can downgrade the client connection (regardless of the server configuration). The best option would be to ensure SMB1 is disabled everywhere, including clients. To do this in Kodi you'll need to add the following to ~/.kodi/.smb/user.conf:

Code:

client min protocol = SMB2

and then configure the max protocol in the Kodi GUI (either SMB2 or SMB3). And, of course, disable SMB1 in the server.

ordinarily this should not stop network browsing etc as this works via a different mechanism.

If only.

- MS-RAP/MS-BRWS protocols will not work as they require SMB1