MrMC

Newbie here.

I have ATV4 and have just added MrMC to it as an app.

I have a few .MKV files ripped from BDs on an external USB drive, in a shared folder. The USB drive hangs off my main PC, which runs Windows 7. The ATV4 and the PC are on the same network.

I am struggling with how to get MrMC to "see" the .MKV files/folders.

Within MrMC, Settings/File Manager gets me to A Root and B Root with the option to Add Source under each.

Click "Add Source" and I can browse the paths for the media locations.

I have Network File System (click on that and I get nothing), UPnP Devices (click on that and I get a list of my Sonos components, and WIndows Media Player icons for my PC and my laptop, neither of which go any further if I click on them) and Zeroconf Browser (click on that and I get nothing). And Add Network Location, but quite what I'm supposed to enter there I don't know.

If I go to Videos/Files/Add Files in MrMC, I get the same list with the Addison of SAP Streams and a blue Video Playlists folder icon. Again, clicking on those gets me nowhere.

In Settings/Services I have enabled "Use libdsm for smb servers" to no avail.

Any ideas?

Have you right clicked, the Windows 7 pc, the hard drive and enabled it to be shared on the network?

Yes, it is a shared drive containing a bunch of shared folders.

Add Network Location,

smb::/<windows ip or smb name>/<share name>

user/pass, enter the user/pass for that share.
remember, check.

Hmm. No success so far.

In the Add Network Location dialogue:

Server name: I enter 192.168.0.XX, which is the IP address on my network of the PC holding the folder I'm aiming for
Shared folder: I enter <computer name>/<drive letter>/<path to folder>

That produces a entry on the Browse for new share list which is smb://192.168.0.XX/<computer name>/<drive letter>/<path to folder>

Enter the user name and password for the PC and I get a message saying MrMC is unable to connect;,couldn't retrieve directory information.

The drive and all the sub folders on it down to the target folder are set to be shared with everyone.

Ideas/suggestions?

ETA; dumb question. Do I need Kodi running on my PC? Because I don't have it at the moment.