In Kodi, try to add a smb:// URL for a share that doesn't allow guest logins and you'll get a cryptic "File Exists" error. It never asks for login credentials. From online searching, this is most likely due to a bug in libsmbclient where smbc_opendir will return EEXIST instead of a more appropriate error code if invalid login credentials were provided.
In Kodi, try to add a smb:// URL for a share that doesn't allow guest logins and you'll get a cryptic "File Exists" error. It never asks for login credentials. From online searching, this is most likely due to a bug in libsmbclient where smbc_opendir will return EEXIST instead of a more appropriate error code if invalid login credentials were provided.
This was fixed in Samba 4.8:
https:/ /github. com/samba- team/samba/ commit/ 7470b9b18af282a 742929d3fc90f4b e5520428a1
But 18.04 is shipping 4.7.
Trying to add a share where the hostname doesn't resolve results in some cryptic messages as well, but that may or may not be a different bug.
ProblemType: Bug dfsg~ubuntu- 0ubuntu2. 2 ature: Ubuntu 4.15.0- 38.41-generic 4.15.18 dules: nvidia_modeset nvidia 256color DIR=<set> ersions: 4-0~ubuntu18. 04.2 ession: Yes
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: libsmbclient 2:4.7.6+
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Nov 1 21:15:29 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-12 (51 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageV
nautilus 1:3.26.
gvfs 1.36.1-0ubuntu1.1
SambaClientRegr
SourcePackage: samba
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)