SMB file share help

Help and Support
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Hi,

I’m relatively new to OSMC and pi’s in general spending most of my time with windows boxes.

I’ve recently rebuilt my pi3 to a standard osmc build. Before this it was able to browse the smb shares i have setup on my raspbian pi2 i am currently using as a print and file server.

However since the rebuild I am now completely unable to browse any smb shares at all. I realise through the looking through several help topics that currently using smbv2 & 3 that browsing has been disabled however it would also appear that attempting to connect using the server’s IP address is also not working I’ve tried smb://192.xxx.xx.xxx/media which is the smb share details (works fine from the windows machines i have around the house) but the osmc comes back with an error that the connection timed out.
I am using the default username and password and making sure they are entered but still no joy.

I’m hoping that someone can point me to my error so I can get this working correctly again, i don’t want to have to plug my usb storage drive into the osmc pi just to be able to watch files again.

Thanks in advance
Stephen

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Ok, will give you some hints but wondering why you not use OSMC as a print & file server (samba is in the App Store).

  1. you could try fstab based mounts see Configuring fstab based Samba share mounts

  2. Check with smbclient -L 192.xxx.xx.xxx how the share looks like you first need to install smbclient via sudo apt-get install smbclient

  3. Enable debug logging and upload logs after trying to access it via smb:/192.xxx.xx.xxx/media