Unable to mount drive connected to Pi 3 with LibreELEC

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Hey guys,

this may seem to be a pretty basic question, but unfortunately I was not able to solve this problem:

I got two Pi 3 devices running at my local network. The first one is a LibreELEC installation (current build: 8.2.3) and gets all of its content from three external hard drives via USB. The Pi itself is connected to my network via cable. The second Pi should serve as a Volumio device for my bedroom. It is also on a wired connection to my LAN.

Here’s the problem: I tried to add one of my hard drives from the LibreELEC Pi device as the primary source for my Volumio Pi device, but I haven’t figured out the right way to do this. I googled this question for hours, tried several things, but in the end I was not able to solve this problem. Are there any changes in the LibreELEC configuration that I have to do in order to mount the hard drive?

By the way, I’m relatively new to Linux so it would be great to get some help from this community.

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards from Munich, Germany.

leland86

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Hi,

Just to understand the predicament, you want to share the three USB disks on the LibreElec device over the network to (at least) your Volumio instance?

The first order of business would be to actually share them on the LibreElec device and confirming this by being able to access them from your PC.
After that you can connect to the CIFS(=SMB)/NFS share in Volumio.

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Hi Saiyato,

yes, that’s correct. I am able to access every single USB drive with my Windows and MacOS devices (no configuration needed in LibreELEC - IIRC Samba share was enabled by default). But I have no idea why I’m not able to mount one of those USB drives in Volumio.

For info: Yesterday I unplugged the USB drive and connected it to the NAS port of my FRITZ!Box 7490 router and it worked like a charm - I was able to mount said USB drive with Volumio. But that is not the final solution I am aiming for - I want my LibreELEC device to be the NAS device in use and not my router.

Thanks for your help!

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I can’t help you right now, I’ll try to setup a test case when I get home :wink:

You’re in luck, since I recently had to setup a LibreElec device, so it’s all on my desk.

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Sounds great! Thanks a lot.

Edit: I finally figured it out by myself: It had to do with my LibreELEC Samba settings: Minimum supported protocol was set to SMB2 (by default) - had to turn it to SMB1 and Volumio instantly recognized all of my hard drives! :slight_smile:

Thanks anyway for your help! I really appreciate it. Have a nice evening!

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Found it! It’s a version problem, you need to specify the correct SMB version (3.0), you can do so by putting this in the options field:

vers=3.0

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You’re a saint! Thank you so much! Now if I can find out why the last.fm Plugin always causes Volumio to crash, I’m totally happy :slight_smile: