How are people mounting windows shares?

[chamelious]

I use fstab as in the guide. It works great until I need to reboot, at which point the share will usually be blank and requires multiple reboots to fix. Would prefer a method that doesn’t break the v4k when the server reboots too.

[grahamh]

You probably want this:

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…

[nabsltd]

If you don’t need to manipulate the files in the share on the OSMC box outside of Kodi, then using Kodi’s built-in smb:// works fairly well, as long as you aren’t trying to play back files at close to the maximum of your Ethernet speed. I don’t have any trouble with files that peak at 50Mbps on the original Vero 4K (100Mbps Ethernet).