It may be fine for music and low-resolution video but not for high video bit-rates. Using the SMB or NFS services in Kodi is somewhat simple to set up but may not deliver the best performance. If using UPnP, you must use the browse function. path and sharename are optional – without them you would see all visible shares on that machine - folder (also optional) is the path to a folder inside that share.
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Path is the location of a share in a Linux filesystem on the server, sharename is the name of a Windows share.
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user is a Windows username with access to the share and password is that user’s password. If you do use a Windows machine name, it must be in UPPERCASE. If using an IP address, it’s best to make it a fixed address by telling your router to always assign that address to that machine. SERVER is the name of the server machine, or preferably an IP address. This is useful if you have several shares on one server. Hit OK and the server will now appear in the ‘Browse for a new share’ list and you can then browse to any SMB shares on that server available to user. Enter the server name or IP address in the Server name field and enter appropriate credentials for access to the server in Username and Password. Instead of entering the whole string for each share, you can choose Browse and then Add network location. You will have to enter the user, password and location manually. This is a major drawback and is because newer versions of Windows don’t allow passwordless (Guest) access to shares. You cannot currently browse to SMB servers if using the latest version of the SMB protocol. To add a network share pick Music (say) then Files then Add music and enter the network location as follows or click left to browse to the location.įor SMB, that if you enter your SMB credentials in this way, they will be immediately stored and removed from the screen, so you will just see: When you add a source, you will be able to browse to any available NFS shares or UPnP devices. (Recall that the maximum allowed bit-rate for a 4K blu-ray is 128Mb/s). Some rough benchmarks I did just now gave me the following read speeds. As an indication of the difference, has done some comparison between using Kodi’s built-in clients and using operating system clients: If you have a media server already you can connect to it using SMB, NFS or UPnP from the Kodi GUI but you may not get the best performance that way. You can also share the same files with two different protocols at the same time. It stands to reason though to expect a Windows filesystem to be served best with a Windows filesharing protocol and a Linux filesystem to be served best with a Linux protocol. File ownership and permissions won’t necessarily translate but that won’t matter for media files. Note that any filesystem format can be used with any protocol, for example you can share NTFS files using NFS or Linux (ext4) files using SMB. Some media servers may offer only UPnP for sharing. We do not generally recommend the use of UPnP for security and performance reasons, but if you already have a UPnP/DLNA server it should be the easiest of all to set up. See here: Add NFS server capabilities to Windows (free).
If you really don’t want to use SMB on Windows, there are NFS servers available. If your NAS or other device where you store media supports only SMB version 1 you may have to adjust the SMB version in Kodi (see below). The Samba client is included in OSMC, the Samba server is optional. They can’t join a ‘HomeGroup’ but according to this: they can access shares created using a homegroup. Linux machines connect to SMB shares using a package called Samba. SMB is built in to every version of Windows. If you keep your media on a Windows machine then it makes sense to use the SMB protocol, otherwise known as CIFS, especially if you have other Windows machines on the network.
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Windows (but not ‘Home’ versions) also has an NFS client so you can still access those NAS files from Windows. NFS is the built-in network filesharing system in Linux. If you have a NAS that offers the NFS filesharing protocol, choose that for best performance with OSMC devices.
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