Remember when 17 beta5 came along some folks couldn’t update/install addons? There was a folder missing. “temp” I think it was if memory serves an old man correctly. Well it may be the same problem with smb. Now remeber, this is Android….
Ok I decided to tinker, since I now have nothing to lose and I uninstalled Kodi.
I have smb working again….for now but this MIGHT be the entire whole problem!
I installed 17.1RC1 FRESH.
I tried to add files via smb – of course it failed.
But a folder got created inside the .kodi folder “.smb”
I copied this folder to the “files” folder so now I have .kodi and .smb inside the files folder
Started Kodi and went directly to the Movies>Enter Files of the default skin
Selected Files
Selected Add Videos
Selected Browse
Selected Windows network (SMB)
Selected Workgroup
Viola! ALL the shares are there! Magic! Joy! Jumping all over the house like Jerry Lewis, my wife called the police and they put me in a straight jacket!
Remember I still have settings in my Router for NETBIOS in an on status! If this doesn’t work for you you might have to add that as well.