Looking for information (future buyer)

You can install the Plex add-on and use that until you get a regular library sorted. As for browsing smb shares that is not possible with SMB 3 due to security related changes over the years. A good place to start would be to read through this thread and if you get stuck just ask a more specific question on where exactly your getting stuck.

Alternatively, there is a bit of a workaround that will let you browse with kodi links but it is only much of a benefit if you have a lot of individual sources. This method is to add your source device/s in a special file manually. You would ssh into your Vero and…

nano .kodi/userdata/passwords.xml

and then enter the following with your own information…

<passwords>
    <path>
        <from pathversion="1">smb://192.168.0.20/</from>
        <to pathversion="1">smb://user%20name:password@192.168.0.20/</to>
    </path>
</passwords>

To save and exit out of this you ctrl-x, y, then press enter. This adds your credentials for the machine your pulling the files from. If you have any spaces in your username they must be replaced by “%20” as shown above. You then need one more file…

nano .kodi/userdata/mediasources.xml

In this one you will need…

<mediasources>
    <network>
        <location id="2">smb://192.168.0.20/</location>
    </network>
</mediasources>

Then ctrl-x, y, enter, type “reboot” and hit enter. If you entered your information correctly you will then have a browsable path to that computer.