New Vero 4K / slow network performance

Indeed so. Let’s look at what you wrote:

so it should simply load the smb:// path from the mysql library

that’s the “from” part of the path substitution

and replacing it with /mnt…

that’s the “to” part of the path substitution.

Your path substitution is this way:

<pathsubstitution>
    <substitute>
        <from>/mnt/Media/</from>
        <to>smb://192.168.1.111/Media/</to>
    </substitute>
    <substitute>
        <from>/mnt/usbshare2/</from>
        <to>smb://192.168.1.111/usbshare2/</to>
    </substitute>
</pathsubstitution>

Rather than me copy what has already been written, take a look at this post, which concisely explains what you need to do next.