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Smart TV's can't access Networked shared drives from Windows
Hi there
I've a Panasonic and LG Tv's which have some built in apps for accessing a LAN and playing media
They have no trouble accessing any HDD on a LINUX NAS - even external USB HDD's mounted on to the Linux NAS provided they are set up in SAMBA
However when accessing Windows on the LAN they can only see LOCAL HDD's (including external USB HDD's) . They don't see any of the drives attached to Windows via the LAN.
However running PLEX (client) from a google chrome device or amazon firestick they see the network shared drives without any problem provided PLEX media server is running on the Windows system.
Any reason why PLEX sees shared drives but the TV's don't themselves see the drives from the Windows system. No problem at all from a Linux NAS -- even when accessing shared drives from Multiple NAS boxes where the HDD's are locally attached to the specific NAS box.
(The whole LAN - including the TV's is on a wired network so no problem with different subnets etc).
Windows Networking after all these years is still IMO a REAL DOG - pity because there's so much decent stuff in Windows these days apart from the sheer convenience of things usually working without a huge lot of effort - but Networking still feels like Black Magic and probably harder to get working than the old Alchemy problem of turning Lead into Gold.
Cheers
jimbo