Thanks,
I did as follows to get things stable after installing samba:
- Edited the /etc/samba/smb-shares.conf file to comment out all of the share definitions I had put there.
- Edited the /etc/samba/smb-local.conf to set the workgroup to what I have at home
- Shut down the Pi fully
- Moved the USB drive to my Win7 PC and changed the drive label from MEDIA to MEDIADRIVE
(I did this because I had seen the existence of a /media dir in the Pi, so I assumed there could be a conflict in the names.) - Moved the drive back and started the Pi
Now I can see the OSMC computer in the Network node in Windows Explorer and when I expand it I see two shares:
mediadrive
osmc
And I can read the mediadrive share and see the files and folders as well as create new files on it. So it seems like I really don’t have to do anything to get to the point I needed to go.
But there is another slight annoyance:
In the Network view OSMC is displayed twice! It is like I had two Pi with the same name on the network!
What could cause this?
PS: I saw your reply above only when I went here in order to add the new info.
But I have not gotten the alert email even now, am I not supposed to get an email when someone replies to my posts?
Very strange and not so good because discussions may go unanswered when I don’t know someone has replied. DS