Can't See Over Network

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@gordon1

Laptop Windows10 Home - 32bit - SUCCESS
AMD Server Windows7 Ultimate - 64bit - FAIL (Network Error - Cant find OSMC)
MainPC Windows10 Pro - 64bit - SUCCESS
Backup Server Windows10 Pro - 64bit - FAIL (Network Error - Cant find OSMC)

As I said I’m probably doing something wrong which until now has sort of worked, is there an idiots guide to setting up network shares around that’ll walk me through this properly?

That you get different results from different client could point to the fact that the different Windows versions may or may not have SMB1 still enabled.
Also it is more reliable to use the IP Address instead of the Name (unless you have a proper DNS setup).

For the path from OSMC to the Server the only other thing I can recommend is autofs mounting.

Mounting network shares with autofs (alternative to fstab)

This how-to describes how to mount your network shares via autofs. Autofs should be as performant as fstab based mounting but has the advantage that your shares are mounted on demand which also should give you more reliability in case of network interuptions. First install the autofs package sudo apt-get install autofs If you already have mounted your shares already via fstab comment out that line in fstab and reboot. For this how-to we are going to use a directory for each server, if you wa…