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To verify, have you tried entering the share folder name in the input box on the second line that says "SMB Share or Path"? Have you also tried using username "guest" and password "1234" as well (apparently, that should be a default user account for unraid). Lastly, have you tried creating a smb user in unraid?

I'm using multiple libraries to get smb to work. If the share name is present, the player will use libsmb2. If the share name is missing, the player will fallback to using smbj-rpc, which attempts to use the rpc protocol to enumerate the shares, but it's an experimental/incomplete library, so it might not be able to enumerate your shares. That's why I recommend inputting the share name into the box.

I'm not aware of any open source libraries that support NFS. I might be able to add SMB1 support, but I think SMB2/3 is faster, so it'd be best if we can figure out how to get smb2 to work with your unraid server. Else, does unraid support DLNA? Or would it be possible to set up XBVR so you can run an http server to host your videos?

pk02022 years ago

I tried all your suggestions.

Heresphere: Scanning for IP addresses for SMB Shares.

A few seconds later I need a list of all shares. I choose the server I want to access and I get: "Connection to SMB Server failed. Please verify IP address and SMB server are online.

I add the shared folder path and try again: "Connection to SMB Server failed. Please verify IP address and SMB server are online."

I try username guest and password 1234: "Connection to SMB Server failed. Please verify IP address and SMB server are online."

Heresphere SEES my server. It just won't connect to it. I don't see the issue as being on my end because SKYBOX VR Player and Pigasus VR Player have no issues seeing my share and accessing it. I can access those SMB shares my phone, my ipad, from my NVidia ShieldTV.

Heresphere is the only app/software that has a problem.

HereSphere2 years ago

Thanks for trying out the suggestions. The share folder path that you type in the input box is just the share folder name, correct? So the first input box should be just your host name, second one is user name, third one is password, and fourth one is just the SMB folder. Also, have you tried creating an account on your unraid server, in the case that username guest and password 1234 don't work?

HereSphere doesn't implement low level SMB code itself. It relies on libraries, specifically the libsmb2 library, which I use to list the actual files in the share and stream the video data. I use a different library (jcifs) to detect the server. For some reason, libsmb2 seems unable to access your unraid server. Libsmb2 only supports SMB2/3, so there's a possibility that your unraid server is only configured for SMB1, which would explain why other apps can still read your shares.

I can either look into adding support for SMB1, or if you're willing to do some more troubleshooting, we can try to figure out if there's an issue with unraid and SMB2/3.

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