2022-07-26, 03:47
How do I share the drive where kodi is installed over network to be accessed by my pc to drag and drop files into shared drive?
2022-07-31, 19:18
You should probably at least mention which OS is in use.
Most OSs (at least Windows and/or Linux) can share everything via the common protocols (SMB or NFS) over the network. So...in order to answer your "how to" question, we need to know which OS is in use.
And we also need to know what the "PC" is and which OS runs on it from which you want to access the shared drive.
Most OSs (at least Windows and/or Linux) can share everything via the common protocols (SMB or NFS) over the network. So...in order to answer your "how to" question, we need to know which OS is in use.
And we also need to know what the "PC" is and which OS runs on it from which you want to access the shared drive.
2022-08-01, 00:49
Kodi is installed by itself on a laptop separate from my pc. My pc runs Linux specifically Fedora 36
2022-08-01, 07:26
And now I still don't know the OS which runs on the machine Kodi runs on 
I guess it's Linux as well. If that's the case I would recommend to use NFS as a protocol as it's way easier to be set up in comparsion to SMB.
So...from my guesses, I think you want to use your Fedora machine to access another PC (which probably runs linux as well) which has Kodi installed to drag some files onto it at some random folder, correct?
I would recommend to read this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NFS
Most important is the "/etc/exports" file which defines which folders are shared over the network. The syntax looks similar to:
The example means:
I guess it's Linux as well. If that's the case I would recommend to use NFS as a protocol as it's way easier to be set up in comparsion to SMB.
So...from my guesses, I think you want to use your Fedora machine to access another PC (which probably runs linux as well) which has Kodi installed to drag some files onto it at some random folder, correct?
I would recommend to read this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NFS
Most important is the "/etc/exports" file which defines which folders are shared over the network. The syntax looks similar to:
Code:
/path/to/shared/folder <ip which is allowed to access it> (some options)
# examples
/home/nari/videos 192.168.0.1/24 (rw,insecure)The example means:
- share the
/home/nari/videosfolder over the network
- "192.168.0.1/24" says that any machine on the network is able to access that share (this for sure depends on the IP range on your network and might differ from my example
- "rw" mean that you will have read and write access to that share
- "insecure" means that ports above 1024 will be used as well
2022-08-01, 16:37
I dont think you understood me. Kodi is the only os on the machine. The specific os is lebreELEC
2022-08-01, 18:50
Great...now you mentioned the other OS
So on one machine you run LibreELEC with Kodi and you want to access libreelec from your Fedora PC, correct?
LibreELEC, by default, shares SMB shares. Simply access them via your file browser which Fedora provides:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBlHCuGGrJ8
This video shows how to do it from a Windows machine. Simply change the path matching to your OS. smb://<ip> if I'm not mistaken. That used to work.
So on one machine you run LibreELEC with Kodi and you want to access libreelec from your Fedora PC, correct?
LibreELEC, by default, shares SMB shares. Simply access them via your file browser which Fedora provides:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBlHCuGGrJ8
This video shows how to do it from a Windows machine. Simply change the path matching to your OS. smb://<ip> if I'm not mistaken. That used to work.
2022-08-01, 21:13
Thank you so much for solving my problem and being patient with me.
