[Commotio]

Hi Community,

i completele deleted and reinstalled Kodi. (Windows wasnt touched)

Now i cant find my Network Drives in Kodi.
Neither under the SMB Option (All drives are on Windows PCs) nor under a user defined Source can i acces the Drives.

Before the Re-Install, this was never an Issue. And in Windows Desktop i can reach them without a problem.

I dont even have an Idea where to start, solving this Problem...

Any Ideas would be appreciated
Thanks in advance

[Klojum]

I dont even have an Idea where to start, solving this Problem...

Start with verifying which Samba version is active on your Windows PC systems.
SMBv2 works a little different from SMBv1.
SMBv2 requires full credentials: username AND password. Also, network browsing is no longer supported.

[scott967]

Some additional info might help.  When you write "access the drives" do you mean that you have mapped a shared folder to a local drive letter in windows?  Or just finding the shared folder itself?

If you are adding a network location in Kodi, are you using a device name or IP address for the SMB server you want to reach?  Is the server running windows or some other OS, for example a Linux variant with Samba?

scott s.
.

[Commotio]

The Drives i want to acces are on a Win 7 (Home Premium) PC.

The Kodi PC is also running on Win 7 (Home Premium).
On the Kodi PC i have the network shares mapped to drive letters.
Under Windows i can reach all network PCs and also ofc the mapped drives without any Issues.

But in Kodi i can not acces any network drive or PC.
I tried using the SMB option and the option to add a new drive "manually" in Kodis Filemanager. Here i tried with IP and Network Name of the PCs. Both didnt work.

[scott967]

Unfortunately my knowledge of SMB is pretty thin and I have had trouble troubleshooting it on my own systems.  The only thing I can think is to turn on curl component logging in Kodi and see if anything pops up in debug log.

scott s.
.

[Commotio]

The Solution was pretty easy in the end, yet a little strange for my taste.

When i added the Share name to the IP address in the kodi file manager -> add new source i could access the drives.

As far as i remember this wasnt nessecary the last time i installed it. But well, now it works.
If this was an obvoius noob mistake, shame on me

[Klojum]

Thread marked solved.

[scott967]

The Solution was pretty easy in the end, yet a little strange for my taste.

When i added the Share name to the IP address in the kodi file manager -> add new source i could access the drives.

As far as i remember this wasnt nessecary the last time i installed it. But well, now it works.
If this was an obvoius noob mistake, shame on me

I guess there are a couple of aspects to SMB.  First is the "name resolution" that converts the name you give an SMB device to an IP address.  Then there's querying the device to get a list of the resources available (i.e., shared folders and printers).  The function that lists and allows you to read/write the contents of the shared resource is a separate function (and typically requires some credentials).  Adding a "network location" in Kodi should allow you to bypass the first two and jump right to the third.

scott s.
.