Vero 4K+ not turning on

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@technoviewer

When I go to Settings > System Info > Summary, I can see that it has correctly picked up an IP address from my router. But it won’t allow me to find my storage when I try to add my network location. I’ve tried SMB as well as NTS but neither option work.

1. For NFS you would need to confiugre yoru NAS to allow the IP of the Vero4k+ to access it!
2. For SMB share browsing is not supported as SMB1 is disabled by default I suggest to read this wiki entry File sharing with a NAS, media server, windows share or other device

So if you want to stick to Kodi Share approach you might need to set protocol as SMB1

@technoviewer

I’ve never heard of FSTAB but if these instructions apply for the Vero 4K+ then happy to follow the instructions. They’re not very user friendly so just wanted to check there wasn’t a better/easier way before I dived in.

If you don’t want to follow the fstab approach this is an alternative

Mounting network shares with autofs (alternative to fstab)

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…