Streaming from Windows 10 to Raspberry Pi with Kodi and LibreElec ? -
#1
Last spring streaming from my Windows desktop to Kodi on Raspberry Pi and LibreElec worked fine. I have updated my systems. Now I have spent hours over hours - no success any more when trying to stream from Windows 10 desktop to my Raspi. No connection to server, connection timed out...
Is there a working how-to somewhere here how make this work again. I don't seem to be the only one with this problem.
Thanks in advance for any input.
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#2
Last spring, a year ago, your Windows 10 probably still used SMBv1 (Samba). By now, after a couple of updates, SMBv2 is now the default, and it has at least 2 important changes:
- The Windows users requires full credentails (including a password)
- Network browsing no longer is functional.

That means that you best can use the "Add a network location..." when adding a new source in Kodi.
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#3
(2019-05-07, 22:03)Klojum Wrote: Last spring, a year ago, your Windows 10 probably still used SMBv1 (Samba). By now, after a couple of updates, SMBv2 is now the default, and it has at least 2 important changes:
- The Windows users requires full credentails (including a password)
- Network browsing no longer is functional.

That means that you best can use the "Add a network location..." when adding a new source in Kodi.

Thanks for Your input. Sorry, I am still unsuccessful. With "full credentials" do you mean password and login to be configurated in the Windows computer for the directories to be shared?
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#4
Username and password, yes.
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#5
After some more hours and beginning gastric ulcer problems I finally have a little bit of progress.

When trying to add my Windows machine as network share in Kodi, I had always started entering the IP-address of the Windows machine. That never worked any further thereafter, whatever I entered as user name and password, probably because I did not enter the name of the Windows network computer. Now I did not enter the ip-address, but entered the name of the network share computer, then user name and password of the windows account I am working with, all of a sudden the the list of network shares in Kodi contains my Windows computer listed as smb://MyComputer/

I can scroll through the subdirectories of the shared directory

But I cannot see any files in these directories.

What can I do to get access to the files?
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#6
(2019-05-14, 16:33)Franz47 Wrote: But I cannot see any files in these directories.

What can I do to get access to the files?

I was to early with my judgement. I finally completed adding the network share, restarted, and now I can see the files, too.
Relief.....
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