Neko
Help me setup samba server
Samba server by default is listening on port under range 1080, Which could not be achieved without root. So you need to change the listening port and adjust the connection settings on your client end.I had
4455
port open for SMB
too. But for some reason I can't connect to it.
Alternatively, Consider using ftp (or similar) instead if you are using it only for local network.I'm using
FTP
and WebDav
for media transferring. And SFTP
(thanks to @word man for suggesting it) for programming stuff inside Termux home.
Unfortunately, Kodi (Omega) does not support SFTP
. Though It does support FTP
and HTTP
server. But again, unfortunately, for some weird reason, it won't show HTTP
server contents.
Fortunately, I was able to map HTTP
server as a drive today on Windows Explorer. And later, add those network drives as libraries in Kodi.
And then I ran into another issue, which is, it caches the complete file first, then plays, and does not stream immediately. Which is a big problem, because the file sizes are huge, and takes two or three minutes minimum to start.
Fortunately, Kodi streams directly with FTP
protocol. But unfortunately, it won't scrape information of the media inside it.
So I'm in a win-lose-win-lose... situation. 😅97 replies
Help me setup samba server
I tried emby, it heated my phone because of transcoding, so I switched to jellyfin.
Jellyfin has no android server (didn't know about termux jellyfin at that time), so I tried Jellyfin server on windows. And tried to add my sd card as library. but to do that, i had to mount it on windows first as a drive. I wasn't able to do it, because windows explorer requires smb servers to map as drives. so I made a support request here about how to create smb server, because what i created failed.
Then I switched to ftp/webdav, these are working fine in kodi, i can scrub through media smoothly.
I kept this request open, as I was curious how to successfully start the smb server, and I was also open to better media streaming ideas if anyone had any.
Does it clear your confusion?
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