[PROBLEM] Samba setup.....Idiot guide required??

[TheOldPresbyope]

Would that include the messages I get in moOde when it fails to establish a connection when I'm trying to set up a NAS source?
FWIW I have one unit running the Pi OS that can access the drive remotely but it's a little funky with VLC media player, dead to Kodi. I mount the drive using the GUI on the OS. Nothing at all with the Pi running moOde.
I've gone through various tutorials on mounting the drive on the Pi running moOde, but no success.
This is the error I get:
Err (mount error(111): could not connect to 10.0.4.94Unable to find suitable address.
10.0.4.94 is the address of the Pi with the hard drive.

First things first. That error message usually means what it says: the moOde player (I'll call it the "local" player)  you're trying to connect to the remote SMB share can't find a host at the address you gave.

A test: From the command line of the local player, try to ping the host offering the SMB share. For example, on one of my players pinging a correct IP address

Code:

rho@m915blue:~ $ ping -c 1 10.0.0.215
PING 10.0.0.215 (10.0.0.215) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.0.0.215: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=98.2 ms

--- 10.0.0.215 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 98.183/98.183/98.183/0.000 ms

Whereas, if I mistype the IP address

Code:

rho@m915blue:~ $ ping -c 1 10.0.0.214
PING 10.0.0.214 (10.0.0.214) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.0.0.197 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable

--- 10.0.0.214 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

In the moOde webUI, making this mistake in the Library conf will cause exactly

Code:

241205 102656 worker: Try (mount -t cifs "//10.0.0.214/SDCard" -o username="guest",password="",rsize=61440,wsize=65536,iocharset=utf8,ro,noserverino,cache=none,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777 "/mnt/NAS/test")
20241205 102656 worker: Err (mount error(113): could not connect to 10.0.0.214Unable to find suitable address.)

Just my 2-cents worth.

Regards,
Kent