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But why can't you see drives that are mapped on an Nvidia Shield in android? Those are SMB3 (i believe) and mounted at the OS level, Kodi 17-18.x worked fine viewing them.
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If they're already mapped and mounted, then they should be visible under the videos > files menu. You don't need to connect to them as external sources, as if already mapped they will be considered as internal sources.
If you can see them that way, then to include content from them into your library, go to the folder that you want to include as the root of your source, and then via the context menu choose "change content" and select the appropriate type (movies, tv shows etc) and they should then be scrapped into the library.
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That's the issue though DarrenHill, they are mapped and mounted at the OS level, i have the shares behind a username/password but in Kodi the videos, files menu is empty. In previous versions of Kodi the share would show up automatically but since I was updated to Kodi 19, that isnt the case. It's simply blank with the option to add video.
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Odd - I presume if you access them at the OS level you can see the content?
If you add them as SMB shares using add video > browse > add network location (do not use the SMB option under browse) and then set up the SMB share there with your username/password, can you access the files properly that way?
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Well what I ended up doing was i uninstalled Kodi 19, turned off auto updates, installed solid explorer, download Kodi 18.9s apk, put it on my Nas, browsed my NAS through solid explorer and sideloaded Kodi 18.9 on all 3 of my shield tvs. Finally everything is working again without any issues. I really hope someone with some Android development experience takes over the dev work on Kodi's android branch and is able to fix this.
As a summary for anyone curious, the issues are:
-Kodi no longer recognizes network mounts done on a Shield TV through the OS
-Kodi can no longer browse the network over SMB (this I was told was due to dropping support for SMB v1)
-Kodi can't read the none value for the minimum smb version (the fix for this is to change the setting under settings, services, smbclient, minimum samba version set to V1 instead of None)
-You can map a shared folder by using the IP and entering the folders, username/password (passwords are now required under Kodi 19) BUT when you go this route, the video will randomly just stop playing and close bringing you back to the Kodi interface.
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(This post was last modified: 2021-02-24, 03:03 by rontonomo.)
always disable auto-updates in play store
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This is shocking. On my TCL P65US Android TV.
Have tried Changing the SMB From 0 to 1. No effect.
Have changed from SMB Names to IP Addresses. Same error when trying to access my NAS. "Operation Not Supported"
Have tried rolling back to 18.9 - After restoring my database, ALL Addons no longer work, not even Confluence but network shares work.
This is unacceptable. The update broke the ONLY thing i use Kodi For, and Rolling back ade kodi completley unusable.
Looks like i now can only access my NAS from my TV Through VLC.