Frustrated as hell – SMB issue?

OK so i have an issue with only 1 of my android boxes
here is my setup
windows 7 kodi installed with mysql as the parent install

i have kodi installs on my phone and 2 android tv boxes. they all have identical advancedsettings.xml files to get to the MYSQL DB and pull data.
i can get to tv and movies fine on both my phone and 1 android tv box
the other one i get the following when i try to watch anything.

remove episode from library message
and playing with add source to check SMB and i click my network i immediately get error timed out.
YET just as a test if i add SMB as a network location from the file browser it shows up through there.

Im so damn confused here.

both android tv boxes are identical.
ANY help would be appreciated!