[deanseavy]

hi i have enabled smb in windows, and created a shared folder on a drive to save movies to so i can access them from my shield tv through kodi. i have tried every method i can find and cannot get it to connect. 

i tried through file manager. when i browse smb through "smb://" and "windows network (smb) both are blank. i tried manually adding a network location using smb://<pc name>/<shared folder name> and also using my pc's ip instead of name and no luck. it will get as far as asking me my username and password and i use my admin user name for my pc and my windows password for my pc and then it just kicks me back and does not work. i have gotten the time out error also but as i said i enabled smb and restarted my pc and have since checked to make sure it stays enabled. still no luck. 

im not extremely good with network stuff but i understand it well enough and i cant get this figured out. 

oh i have also enabled sharing for "everyone" in the shared folder

any help will be very appreciated

[DarrenHill]

As by default now you won't be using SMB1 (MS disabled it due to security issues - search for Wannacry for details), browsing won't work as SMB2/3 don't support that.

For the username issue, one simple solution is to create a new local user on your PC which has access rights to the folder you're trying to share. Then use the username and password as the log-in credentials.

Using a MS account can cause problems as it can be a bit tricky to actually get the correct username to use, as it sometimes isn't what it appears to be.