Help with Windows network access Shared drives

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@Muzza

Thanks.
Have double checked permissions in Win10 and all are correct.
Password access is not required for the directories I nominated above and “Everyone” has full access.
Is my issue the syntax I am using to nominate the Server name and Shared Folder name ?

Ok, first using guest is not always the easiest so actually creating a user with a password might be a more fool proof solution.
Secondly you might have a tricky environment where your NAS only supports old Samba protocols while your Windows 10 would demand the latest ones.

I think you have two options either follow this thread to change the authentication options via user.conf as explained here

Can't access NAS from Rpi2

@alexisuceta @DavidUcles We would like to review this issue once more to ensure we can maybe fix it more holistically. To do that we first would need to figure out which exact setting made it work for you. Would you be able to do some quick testing of changing values in user.conf and restarting mediacenter and then check if connection still works? The steps would be: sudo systemctl stop mediacenter nano /home/osmc/.kodi/.smb/user.conf sudo systemctl start mediacenter The lines in user.c…

Or more performant follow this thread for fstab based mounting

Configuring fstab based Samba share mounts

This tutorial is to help those who are using Samba (also known as CIFS, SMB or Windows Networking). It assumes that you already are sharing media files on a Windows Server or Desktop. Why use /etc/fstab instead of Kodi’s built in SMB client? The Kodi client in current versions (17.x and older) is slow. Using /etc/fstab is faster, and not really that hard to setup. EDIT: 11/1/2019 While improvements were made in Kodi 18.x, using fstab will still be faster. Preparation: You will need to know …