box invisible on network

[ccs]

But i have used an earlier image and setup from start and box is now seen,for the moment.

Settings restores kind of fixed the problem by accident rather than design.

If you flashed an old image (you mentioned 2 years old a while ago) then it's very unlikely it needs "disable netbios = No" putting in smb-user.conf.

I reckon the new samba changes went in about 14 months ago.

[Joe_90]

The earlier images use an older version of samba which supports SMB1 and network browsing works fairly well and handles older windows shares (Win95/98/XP/NT/2000 etc). Win10 by default doesn't support SMB1, so the default now is SMB2 in most linux distros and network browsing doesn't work well. enigma builds now use SMB2 by default also. Most of my shares are on a linux mint (ubuntu derived) box which acts as a NAS. This too uses SMB2 by default. So I bit the bullet and set user and password on the various shares and access them by IP address/sharename and provide a userid and password in the mount manager in enigma and on my separate kodi box and it all works fine in the 5.4.nnn builds. It's all in the name of improved security, supposedly! There's no "one size fits all" option if you have a mixed MS Windows and linux network, particularly if you are running an older unsupported windows version (anything other than Win10). @SpaceRat is probably the best at describing the various scenarios and best settings, so if you search for posts by him you might get some good tips. I just gave up on browsing and access everything by IP address at this stage (but it can be done if you are prepared to keep configuring and maybe adopt the avahi method in an all linux environment). As @ccs has discovered, the samba config files are not being cleaned up properly when you remove samba from the system so that means you can end up with bits of old samba config and new samba executables. The older versions of samba had netbios enabled by default I think so that provided the network discovery, but that's a security issue also, so it's not the default now.