Nice Samba hints and setup page

 Still looking for solution to a problem mounting from some servers onto an Ubuntu 22, and getting a 115 error.  apparently an improperly rejected connect attempt, but no solution yet.

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-configure-samba-server-share-on-ubuntu-22-04-jammy-jellyfish-linux

Kodi SMB protocol setting

 

Kodi seems to require you to set the level.  The current minimum setting on 19.1 and 20 is none.  The maximum was set to v3

In the Settings -> services -> SMB Client box, set both min and max to v1 if using window clients.

Haven't tried it with Readynas SMB protocol shares.

May need to clear memory on Android system / phone for KODI.

settings -> apps -> memory -> cache -> memory.

clearing memory will erase all configuration, and permissions and all shares will need to be re-entered.

Workaround for when windows shares have bad credentials

Not sure if this is the correct way to remove badly credentialed shares, but a start

When you have a device on a network share and get the login incorrect, there seems to be no way to remove the bad "guess" or login so you can retry or correctly enter a password.  This is via the GUI access to shares.

This may be a way to force the credential to go away, by using a command line net command to remove it.  Untried thus far, but may work.

Execute "net use" in windows cmd box.
It will display all the links.
Run following command to remove your PI's link:

net use /D \\192.168.0.165\share

Then retry the access.
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how to mount drives on Windows 10 Ubuntu shell

From link below, can get to drives or other servers

https://superuser.com/questions/1114341/windows-10-ubuntu-bash-shell-how-do-i-mount-other-windows-drives

Good news, it is now possible to mount USB media (including formatted as FAT) and network shares with drvfs on Windows 10:
Mount removable media: (e.g. D:)

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/d
$ sudo mount -t drvfs D: /mnt/d

To safely unmount

$ sudo umount /mnt/d

You can also mount network shares without smbfs:

$ sudo mount -t drvfs '\\server\share' /mnt/share

cifs / smbfs mount notes

http://www.thatsquality.com/articles/mounting-windows-smb-file-shares-using-cifs

Note:  from above articles writing to present, package install has changed form

apt-get -y install smbfs

to

apt-get -y install cifs-utils

Now, if it worked, you should see your mount right on the desktop. Browse through it, play music from it, watch movies from it (network speed permitting). Here are some common errors:

• mount error: can not change directory into mount target... - either you didn't create your /media/my_share directory or specified it wrong in your mount command.
• mount error 13 = Permission denied - your username and password are being rejected. Try some other combinations
• mount error 6 = No such device or address - the share_name that you specified in your mount command is not being found on the host computer. Browse the network, find that computer, and check to make sure you see the exact share name.