[SOLVED] accessing PC harddrive?

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So, the SMB PATH you need to enter in moOde's Music source form must in the form "servername/sharename".

Note that no preceding "\\" or "//" is required.


1. What is your (Windows 10) servername? As @DRONE7 said, the IP address will do in place of the servername.

If you want the name you can find it several ways on your Windows host. From the Windows command prompt (e.g. running cmd.exe or powershell.exe) enter "net localgroup". The servername is at the top of the results where it says "Aliases for <servername>". Alternatively, you could enter the command "net statistics workstation", which reports "Workstation statistics for <servername>".

As well, if you use moOde's SCAN feature, you should see your Windows 10 servername show up in the results. The share itself won't unless you've installed/enabled SMB V1.0 on the Windows 10 host.

2. What is your sharename? Again, from the Windows 10 command prompt, enter "net share". The names of all the current shares are listed in the lefthand column.

[I repeat, I'm running Windows 10 Pro (as a guest virtual machine in Linux, actually). YMMV with lobotomized Windows 10 Home.]

Note that the SMB protocol is case insensitive so capitalization in the PATH entry shouldn't matter but there's no harm in being fastidious.

3. What are the permissions? This is easy to get wrong and I'm not going to try to give a tutorial on Windows 10 permissions management...I'd start to rant if I did. When I set up my Windows 10 share, I right-clicked on the folder in question, then Sharing > Advanced sharing > Permissions and made sure "Everyone" has "Read" permissions. With this, "Guest/<none>" works for me in moOde.

4. Upping the protocol version either to 2.0 or to 3.0 in moOde's advanced settings works with my Win10 Pro system.

Regards,
Kent

I took screenshots of the required info listed above. Nothing happens when I hit "scan" for server path.  I also tried entering the ip address i got from the Fing app and entered windows/microsoft id and password without any success. I did right click on music folder to share.  

Hopefully this will give some clues as to what I'm entering wrong.