Well mounting your shares can either be done via fstab or autofs (my recommendation). After you then have done that (e.g. mounted to /mnt/my-server/XYZ where XYZ is hte path to your playlist you then could set a symlink with ln -s /mnt/my-server/XYZ /home/osmc/.kodi/userdata/playlists
This tutorial is to help those who are using Samba (also known as CIFS, SMB or Windows Networking). It assumes that you already are sharing media files on a Windows Server or Desktop.
Why use /etc/fstab instead of Kodi’s built in SMB client? The Kodi client in current versions (17.x and older) is slow. Using /etc/fstab is faster, and not really that hard to setup.
EDIT: 11/1/2019
While improvements were made in Kodi 18.x, using fstab will still be faster.
Preparation:
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This how-to describes how to mount your network shares via autofs. Autofs should be as performant as fstab based mounting but has the advantage that your shares are mounted on demand which also should give you more reliability in case of network interuptions.
First install the autofs package
sudo apt-get install autofs
If you already have mounted your shares already via fstab comment out that line in fstab and reboot.
For this how-to we are going to use a directory for each server, if you wa…
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