OSMC Can't see my Windows 10 SMB

SMBv1 “browsing” isn’t the only way to browse for shares in a Windows network.

As I said, the “Network Discovery” service allows browsing of servers and shares. See SMBv1 is not installed by default in Windows 10 version 1709, Windows Server version 1709 and later versions | Microsoft Learn for more information. This also explains how to easily permanently re-enable SMBv1.

I went through this with Windows Server 2012 R2 (the server version of Windows 8.1), which has SMBv1 disabled by default out of the box. All modern Windows (7 and above) could browse the server just fine, but anything older needed SMBv1 enabled, and needed to have an authenticated user configured.

I have no idea how this affects Samba-based systems like Linux, but obviously it’s possible to browse even a pure SMBv2 or v3 network, since Windows does it, but I suspect it needs an authenticated user.