Himedia Q10 does not find shared foldes of desktop PC via LAN

[timsam]

I don't know if this will help but I also downgraded from 18.x Leia back to 17.6 Krypton. Leia was just too unstable. Constantly freezing and just plain bad news with the Kodi Wrapper. So far so good and will keep this setup permanently for now.

[DMD]

I report my experience from 2 years ago.
Through the mediacenter I could no longer access the files on my PC after migrating from Android 5 to 7.
After switching to Android 7 I got the message "Network error, please check network state" or "new server error".
During numerous attempts, I had to rename the main folder of each HDD by deleting the empty spaces with "_" es. from "FILM HD Storage 1" to "FILM_HD_Storage_1"
and immediately I had access to the subfolders and the player (Himedia Videoplayer) works regularly.

[unclejoshc]

Sadly neither of those options help me out but hopefully they can help others who have issues connecting from the box to the pc.

[unclejoshc]

Ok I am so confused.  Now through ES Explorer app I can access my pc and all my shared folders.  I just scanned and when my pc name showed up i entered my name and password and it connected right away.  Yet through Mediacenter LAN nothing happens.  It pulls up the pc name in search but when i enter name and password nothing happens.  In Kodi not even the pc name comes up at all.  I even tried entering the IP address of my pc in the add source section but it just says operation not permitted.  Nothing comes up when i do a SMB search at all in Kodi.  What the heck?  This makes no sense at all.  Why does the ES app connect but nothing else?

[DMD]

I also had a similar problem.
It only required me access from the 17th folder onwards, and I solved it in the last post of this thread.
https://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=3564.0

[unclejoshc]

That is beyond me. I don't have that many folders shared.  Unless that includes subfolders.  I have whole drives shared. All simply labeled as K, M, N, etc. Total of 6 HD shared.

Maybe I need to unshare them all and try sharing just 1 and see if that works?  But why doesn't Kodi even show my PC at all?  Like i can't even get to the point of adding my name and password. it doesn't show anything when i try to add source.

[DMD]

Try sharing a folder (not HDD) and check if you find it in the mediacenter.

[unclejoshc]

Ok, I unshared all my drives and only shared a single folder.  ES Explorer worked fine only showing that one folder but mediacenter had the same issue.  I enter my username and password and it immediatly freezes and nothing happens. 

Kodi still found nothing.

This sucks.

[DMD]

An extra test costs nothing, possibly to eliminate the blanks in the syntax?
https://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=3209.msg31605#msg31605

[unclejoshc]

An extra test costs nothing, possibly to eliminate the blanks in the syntax?
https://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=3209.msg31605#msg31605

I tried that as well. I even added an extra word and underscore to my folder since it was a 1 word folder to begin with.  So my folder was called Challenge.  I tried sharing it and nothing. I then changed the folder name to The_Challenge and still nothing.  My situation is not like your was where some folders showed up and others didnt. I cannot even get mediacenter to connect to my pc in the first place.  I dont get an error message. I get nothing. Just a blank screen with a frozen spinning wheel in the upper left corner of the screen after I enter my user name and password.  I will upload some pics.

I do appreciate and thank you for trying to help me. I have been dealing with this issue for a long time now and have posted about it before multiple times and no one has been able to help yet.

[DMD]

Did you also set fixed IP?

[unclejoshc]

Here is the step by step process. I only omitted a screenshot of my username and password.

[unclejoshc]

Did you also set fixed IP?

Not sure.  I may have at some point while trying to fix this in the past.  Do you have a link so i can see the process and see if i remember doing this?

[unclejoshc]

One pic duplicated. this should have been second in the series.  JLC10 is my PC name

[DMD]

Did you also set fixed IP?

Not sure.  I may have at some point while trying to fix this in the past.  Do you have a link so i can see the process and see if i remember doing this?