Hello all,
Apologies in advance for the long message.
I’ve had OSMC running on a Pi 3B for several years now. I use NextPVR to record OTA TV plus I have a collection of movies, videos, and pictures which I’ve set up to access with OSMC. NextPVR is running on a Windows 10 computer and the movies, videos, and pictures are also stored on that computer. I use the NextPVR add-on to access the recorded TV programs and I’ve set up shared folders where I store the other items on the Windows machine.
Last week, my Windows computer “took a dump” and I had to reinstall Windows “fresh”. I’m progressing with getting things back up and running. I’ve reinstalled NextPVR and have it working again with OSMC.
I’m unable to access the other shared files, and that’s why I’m here seeking support from the experts.
After reinstalling Windows, the “server” has the same IP address. The files I want to access via OSMC used to be spread across several different drives with various folder names. I took the opportunity to re-organize the files as I was rebuilding the computer. I now have an external HDD labelled I:\ with shared folders Movies, Videos, and Pictures. I’ve set up a user named “OSMC” with a password on the server and shared these folders with the OSMC user. This user name and password is the same as the ones used before the crash.
When I fire up OSMC, it remembers the movies, videos, and pictures and the locations where they used to be but of course I can’t access them because I’ve changed their location on the server. So, I’ve been trying various ways to “find” them in OSMC. I’ve been unable to do that.
If in OSMC I go to Settings>Media>Library>Videos to manage sources, I see the sources I used to have listed. If I click on any of these, I get the error message “Operation not permitted” followed by “Couldn’t connect to the network server”. I don’t expect to see these files because I’ve reorganized them and the aren’t where they used to be on the server.
So, my next step is to “Add videos…” So, I select Add videos>Browse and I get a list of choices, including smb://, smb://192.168.1.99/, Windows network (SMB), and “Add network location”. (192.168.1.99 is the IP address of my server, the same as before the crash). If I select smb://, I get no response. If I select smb://192.168.1.99/, I get “Operation not permitted”, and if I select Windows network (SMB), I get no response.
I proceed then to “Add network location…”, and enter Windows network (SMB) for the protocol, 192.168.1.99 for the server name, then enter the Username and password I set up for OSMC. I leave the “shared folder” name blank. Then I hit “OK”, whereupon I get an error message “Operation not permitted”, followed by “The connection to the network location couldn’t be established. This could be due to the network not being connected. Would you like to add it anyway?” I give up at this point and select “No”. (Note that NextPVR is happily running and supplying content over the network.)
I wanted to try to remove all my previous sources and try again, but I can’t, because I can’t access the server.
I can’t think of any other options at this point and look forward to any help the group can provide. I appreciate your patience and apologize for this long message. I’m happy to submit logs but I thought I’d check to see if there are any obvious things I’m doing wrong first.
Thanks for any help.