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I cannot figure out how to connect from Kodi to my host machine (ubunutu) music via ssh. Can anyone point me towards a how to or tell me how to do it? All I can seem to find in my searches is how to ssh into Kodi from another computer.
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Files/add music/browse/add network location/secure shell
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2014-12-30, 00:21
(This post was last modified: 2014-12-30, 00:28 by xmjsilverx.)
I have gotten that far but when I enter the IP of the computer, the path, and the username and password it does not connect. Am I missing something?
Ok, wow, I made a rookie mistake. I didn't use capital M when entering Music as my path. Thanks though.
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Also you might like to think about something more standard like smb or nfs. SSH involves a lot of overhead, with all that encryption/decryption.
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I used smb but for some reason it was not importing my music correctly and when I would go to library mode most of the stuff wouldn't show up but it would on the host machine under kodi so I know it was tagged correctly. It is working great now under ssh. I am not familiar with nfs but I am reading the wiki on it now.
