I cannot add my Seagate Central network drive as an SMB share (using IP). It immediately says connection timeout but it works fine on my PC running an older version of Kodi and my other RPI2 running an old version of OSMC. (This one is an RPI1 B+)
This is most likely caused by the fact that your Seagate can only support the insecure SMB1 protocol that has been blocked in the last update. You could try to edit .smb/smb.conf see this thread
I just got a Raspberry Pi 3 and installed OSMC. I’ve been using an RPi2 with OSMC for a couple of years, and this new one will be going on a different TV. I was unable to access any SMB shares with this new box though, despite trying various fixes on the forums. I was able to resolve the issue by modifying the .smb/smb.conf file. The line in question was
client min protocol = SMB2
I changed it to read
client min protocol = SMB1
Evidently at some point SMB2 became the default protocol lev…