Cannot access SMB shares from Linux or Kodi (on FireTV)

[Niel Archer]

Since upgrading to 11.2-RELEASE I haven't been able to access the shares on my FreeNAS box from other devices.

For Kodi, I knew it would need the legacy (server_min_protocol=NT1) setting, but neither setting that via tunables, nor enabling "NTLMv1 Auth" (which I'm assuming, may be incorrectly, is the GUI version of that) has allowed connecting. The device just times out eventually.

For my Linux Mint box, as a test to see if it is working generally, I just get the "Failed to retrieve share list from server: Connection refused" message.

Any help diagnosing, and solving this, would be much appreciated.

 

[Niel Archer]

Wouldn't you know it, day after posting the question, Kodi access starts working again!! No idea why though.

Linux still doesn't connect, but the error message changed to: Host key verification failed

 

[dlavigne]

Were you able to resolve the Linux error message?

 

[Niel Archer]

Nope :-(
Fortunately for me, the Linux side was only a test to see if I could connect with another device.