Share USB drives to local network? (Samba installed but can't see Vero on LAN)

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I’ve two 8TB USB drives which currently sit in my old Kodi Laptop. One for TV and the other for Movies.
If I connect these directly into the Vero 4k+ can I configure them to be accessible from other W10 PC’s on my LAN?

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I can ping the Vero 4k+ IP Address, and OSMC can read the content of the drives.

The Vero isn’t visible under Network on W10 - is there some configuration I’ve missed?

3

Try to enable SMB1.0 under Windows features on or off

4

There is a wiki article, here: File sharing with a NAS, media server, windows share or other device

Especially the chapter “OSMC as a Server” could be of interest for you.

Let us know if there are still questions and we can help.

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Thanks Jim.

I’ve enabled the SAMBA server, and updated the W10 settings on my PC.

If I Start, Run “\192.168.1.173” W10 returns an empty windows explorer window, but no folders are visible. From reading that article, this is what I’d expect if I was using NFS - so I don’t know which protocol W10 is using.

If I do the same on an old W7 laptop, Start, Run “\192.168.1.173”

I can see a share named OSMC which contains folders named Movies, Music, Pictures, and TV Shows which looks to be the internal memory.

I can also see a share named “osmc-usb-ssd” which is the volume of the USB drive and the folder within that contain TV and Movies.

So how do I get W10 to offer the same user browsing experience as W7?

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Did you see this?

Browsing shares is a feature of SMB1 which is depreciated because of security issues. Either manually activate it on Win10 or just mount the folders without browsing.

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Okay - Thanks all.

Mapping to the Share (blindly or using the info from the W7 Laptop) has worked :slight_smile:

Would moving to SMB3 allow W10 to see the shares in the traditional fashion?