[black_eagle]

No, the hardware is Odroid N2 CoreELEC, not Apple MAC.
CoreELEC is the OS, and Kodi is embedded (I suppose you could say) in/with the CoreELEC OS.
Mac has nothing to do with it.
1.MacDOCS is external HDD connected to Odroid N2 CoreELEC.
Everything works fine on my MAC install of Kodi - that's why I said issue is not with Kodi on Mac.
Issue is with Kodi running on CoreELEC with Odroid N2 hardware (an SBC - single board computer).

In Configfiles folder on CoreELEC, there is a samba.conf.sample, but no smb.conf file.
Samba was originally smb server but name was changed (See Google)
In Configfiles > system.d - there is also a nfs.mount.sample

Yeah, I know what your hardware is.

I have to ask though,  your very first post about this shows you trying to path substitute an SMB share

<pathsubstitution>
        <substitute>
            <from>special://profile/playlists/music/</from> <---This line is the Kodi default playlist path/directory, "special" replaces a long user related path)
            <to>smb://MacDOCS/Music/</to> <----This line "maps" the line above to my NAS path for my m3u files from media monkey
        </substitute>
        <substitute>
            <from>\\MacDOCS\Music\</from> <----this line is the path to each song contained within the m3u files, relative vs.absolute path
            <to>smb://MacDOCS/Music/</to> <---this line maps the line above to the Kodi friendly path of my NAS song directories
        </substitute>
    </pathsubstitution>

Is it just an external drive or is it a NAS drive ?  The two things are completely different.