CoreELEC 22.0-Piers_rc1 installed and working well. (I forgot to add on an Odroid+ N2 Usd card). Also have EMMC but so far no idea how to transfer to that memory device!). It has an external exFat USB HDD from a previous 21.3 Coreelec install, and this is working fine for playing/deleting, movies and TV series , except, when accessing this shared external HDD from a network Windows 11 machine I can’t create a folder in the drive which is essentially over the network.
Currently I can create a TXT file from the windows machine ok, but not copy from the windows drives to the Corelec external drive. Error when trying to copy from a windows HDD to Coreelec I get this message in windows “could not find this file”. Not sur eif its refering to the source or to the destination location.
This seems to be every time I upgrade from 20 to 21 to 22. When I get it working with so much stuffing around I can’t remember what to record what actually solved the problem.
Sometimes the Coreelec HDD is /dev/sda2 and sometimes it looks like /dev/sdb2.
Thanks for any guidance that assists how to transfer files from a windows computer to the Coreelec external attached HDD.
Edit: I can create a text file, edit the file and that works ok, but not create a folder, not copy and paste a file across. Seems like permissions but I am not up with Linux to do this.
Edit2: Working with ChatGPT (first time) and worked through all alterations of SMB.conf by adding and deleting Seagate5TB share in Corelec and no joy. have turned off samba-rebooted, enable samba-rebooted and even created another share SeagateRW with all the correct share items as suggested and “read only = NO” even though entered does not appear in the final smb.conf. I can delete files and folders from windows, can create a file like a txt file ok and edit that from windows, just not a folder. Even Chatgpt with lots of results and suggestions cannot solve the problem because it seems unsolvable.
The error message in windows claims "Could not find this item This is no longer located in d:\downloads etc. So now it appears to be missing inside windows? While creation of a folder in the HDD from windows says it cant “cant find the item. This is no longer located in \\Coreelec\Segate5TB” Verify the location and try again.
Edit3: Change back to Coreelec 21.3 uSD card and it all works fine. No other change needed using same external HDD, same windows, therefore problem exists inside 22. Also tried nightly update 261005 and no change. Must be a samba or OS configuration.
Edit4: New card, loaded nightly 20261006, change IP to static, nothing else, same problem! Replace with 21.3 card, working again.
Edit5: Slept on problem. loaded 21.3 to eMMC, tested all working ok. loaded Coreelec 22.0 RC1 to the update folder and rebooted where it did an upgrade from 21.3 to 22. Looked like all settings were retained, IR remote still working, Samba appears to be the same settings as 21.3. However we now have the problem where a folder cannot be created from a network desktop PC.
Maybe the Samba upgrade in 22 is the problem and as its part of Coreelect I dont think there is a replacment or reinstall possible.
As far as I can see problem is with the 22 installation. No nightly or other option appears to be available to me to fix this. Anyone got any clues or suggestions please?
Minsik.