Accessing mac Samba shared drives on NVIDIA Shield Pro

by _vidnas

I have a mac mini that shares a handful of drives via smb. I can access these drives accross the network on other devices, but my shield pro is refusing to connect to them. I have been trying to access via Kodi (these drives have all my media on them) but I haven't got anywhere so tried to access via X-Plore File Manager.

X-plore finds the Mac when scanning for drives, but I get different errors depending on which settings I use. I get authentication failed for Guest if I leave the login/pw blank with SMB2 enabled. I get "This Client does not support the negotiated dialect" If I leave the login/pw blabk and switch SMB2 off. And if I enter the username+pw I get "STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED" with SMB2 enabled or not.

As I mentioned before, I can access this share via other devices without an issue. I can't add NFS shares due to the drives being a mix of ExFAT, NTFS and HFS+.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Many thanks

kaambiz

I have had the exact same issue with Mac and Android TV. Apparently it's due to Mac using SMB 3.

I ended up using SFTP instead of SMB.

exodus_cl

Use the "add network share" using the IP of the mac and acces with user + password

EDDIE_BR0CK

FWIW I tried to access network SMB shares on my AndroidTV for RetroArch ROMs, and couldn't get it working. I could view the SMB shares with a file browser, but not in Retro.