[hakayova]

Hi all,

I installed the most recent release version of Kodi on FreeBSD 13.1 and it seems to be working well, except I cannot connect to my NAS samba share. When I try to add video source and select network location/browse, the protocol field at the top of the dialog has a drop down list that does not contain WIndows Share (samba). It contains RSS, DAV, http, https, UPNP, FTP etc. but neither samba nor nfs. I never have this problem with Libre ELEC before. FreeBSD installation has the samba412 package installed too. Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.

[wsnipex]

It's possible that your kodi package was compiled without samba support. In any case I'd recommend using OS level mounts instead of kodi built-in, since it usually performs better.

[hakayova]

It's possible that your kodi package was compiled without samba support...

I figured that this indeed seems to be the case. Thank you for your suggestion to mount the share at OS level, I didn't think about that, and it makes perfect sense!🤞