Well, it’s not necessarily an issue with a Windows version, but more generally. That having said, I have Windows 10 Pro with shared folders.
My issue is more that my previous mediaplayer was plug and play. Connect it to the network, browse to homegroup and voilà, my shares showed up.
This one isn’t. I managed a few years ago, but forgot what I did, so I had to figure it out again. And I’m not a pc guru.
I’ve read “File sharing with a NAS, media server, windows share or other device”
But that looks intimidating to me; “fstab”, “autofs”, “sudo mkdir /mnt/mySharedDrive”, etc. And then talking about ssh’ing etc, no idea what that is.
My parents would never get this player running for example. I would like an “idiots guide to connect to pc” with screenshots; something like this:
So what I did:
Connected a keyboard to the Vero 4k.
I went to Settings-> SMB client → minimum version v2; maximum version v3.
Not even sure if that’s needed by the way, I remembered something about that.
Then to the “add network location” page. (Don’t recall how I got there.)
[add screenshot]
Protocol: SMB
Server name: [show here the PC’s name with screenshot of PC; e.g. srb12_PC]
shared folder: leave empty
user name: fill in your Windows username
password: fill in you Windows password
[explicitly mention one must have a password. Few years ago I didn’t know at first, causing issues]
Then go to home again; videos-> files-> and lookup your pc.
This works fine for me with 4K HDR files. So perhaps the other way is faster, but this is enough to stream video.