CIFS mounts not showing all files

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Hi guys,
I mounted my Nas shares CIFS to compare with Kodi SMB as recommend in this forum. However I noticed that some video files show and play in Kodi SMB but don’t show at all in CIFS.
The files are AVCHD m2ts files from a consumer Canon camcorder, so nothing fancy.
What could be the problem?

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Hi,

Recommendation is to use fstab based mount when possible
Can you double check the permissions? And take a photo / screenshot of what screen you’re trying to access those files under?

Kodi only shows certain filetypes under certain screens

Sam

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  1. I used
    sudo mount -t cifs -o username=xxxxxxx,password=xxxxxxxx //10.0.1.205/video/ /mnt/DSvideo/

Is this fstab ?
I am under Video window, add files, than I navigate to root folder, mnt, and choose the mounted DSvideo.

  1. For the SMB test I go the same Video window and choose “add network location”, SMB and so on, the Kodi way, I select the same video share on the nas as 1. above.

When I go to play the videos, the location added with method 2 shows all videos, but location added using method 1 shows only some videos. The AVCHD videos are missing

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Found the reason, the not shown files were symlinks. Wonder if there is an option to the mount command to follow the symlink?

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User had a similar issue and Kodi mount was the problem. Command line and fstab mounts were not affected.

I think you want nounix as an option for this to work as expected.

I’ll ping the user and see if they can chime in. It’s been a while since I mounted a Samba share, particularly one with symbolic links, on Linux.

Sam

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This is what I did to mount my Windows share on my Vero via fstab
This allowed me to play media that was deduped, that would not play under a Kodi mount

First create a mount point:

mkdir –p /mnt/share

Then create a smb credential on your osmc home

nano /home/osmc/.smbcredentials

With these entries:
username=whatever
password=whatever
domain=whatever

Finally in /etc/fstab

//servename/share /mnt/share cifs credentials=/home/osmc/.smbcredentials,x-systemd.automount,noauto,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

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Thanks, Mickoz, I will give it a try. I got Linux to Linux, hope it works as well.