Hi, I have had a Vero 4K+ for a few weeks now. Everything is going as planned. It is running latest update as far as I know and I’m running the stock Kodi skin.
I’ve had success using Samba to transfer from the Vero to my PC over the network, but going from the PC to Vero seems to be a problem. It doesn’t start the transfer really, Windows just hangs on calculating in the transfer window and never moves.
Do I need to enable some kind of write permission to allow the PC to write to the drives attached to my Vero?
On a similar vein, can something like Midnight Commander be installed on the Vero?
Did you install the Samba Server from the MyOSMC - APP Store? Or how are you trying to transfer files from the PC to the Vero?
Within Kodi you have already the File Manager. Yes, you can install Midnight Comander (sudo apt-get install mc) on the Vero. You would need to do so via SSH.
I remember someone had a similar problem with a specific combination of filesystem and samba. Unfortunately forgot the details I hope someone from team reads it and remembers.
Can you transfer just a single small file without a freeze or it happens even then?
The issue here sounds like the drive is formatted as FAT 32 and this is a problem connected to an OSMC device and using explorer to transfer files from Windows. In this case smaller files will transfer but there is no progress dialog. Files over a particular size (fuzzy memory is leaning toward a couple gigs) will not successfully transfer. In addition I seem to recall that if you tell a file to delete on said drive from windows it will be removed from view but the space is not freed. Also when you have one of these failed transfers, the space that was taken up by what was transferred will not be freed. In short, if your going to touch the drive over SAMBA don’t use exFAT. NTFS did not seem to have any of these issues. I would assume any Linux file system would also not have an issue but I personally didn’t test that.
So I confirmed with Windows and also SSHed into the Vero and confirmed the attached drive is NTFS formatted. I can transfer from the attached drive to my PC, but seems to stall in reverse.
I have just been using another drive with the ripped media on it attached to the Vero as well and using file manager to transfer media from one drive to another
That is really odd as @darwindesign wrote so far it seemed only a problem on some exFAT drives.
If you are planning to use the drive dedicated to the Vero you could format it with ext4 or btrfs which should solve the problem unless it is a drive issue.
First you may just want to upload the logs grab-logs -J -K so that we could check if there are any drive related issues reported.