And if I did manage to figure out that problem I don't know how to stop Kodi from indexing my backups of everything else on the drive.I have planned to substitue one of my Windows-based Kodi MediaPortal PVR clients, mainly used for 'Live TV', I want to store both movies and TV shows on the external drive but Kodi only allows its SMB shares to recognize a single media type (either movies or TV shows, for example, but not both,) but Kodi erases my libraries when I try to create multiple SMB shares with different media types to the same URL. I don't have an extra Time Capsule or any other hardware. Workarounds? It appears that SMB is the only protocol that the Airport or Time Capsule can use to talk to Kodi. So to recap, these SMB URLs work in Kodi: this URL fails with a connection error: is the external drive, whether it is attached to the Time Capsule or to the Airport Express, and timecapsule is the Time Capsule's internal drive. I wanted to be sure the problem was with Kodi and not the Airport/Time Capsule so I tried connecting to the subdirectory with a SMB URL in Finder and it connected perfectly. If I connect an external USB drive to the Time Capsule, I still cannot create SMB shares to subdirectories on the external drive, only to subdirectories on the internal drive or to the root of the external drive. However, I have another setup where I did this successfully, the only difference was that I was using a Time Capsule with an internal hard drive. If I try to create a SMB share to a subdirectory on the drive, the connection fails. However, Kodi will only let me create a SMB share to the root of the drive. The Airport is protected with a device password. I have a USB hard drive connected to my Airport Express with movies, TV shows, and backups of misc files that I don't want indexed into Kodi. I am using Kodi 17.6 on an Amazon Fire Stick. I have some more data points to add for anyone who can help. Apologies if this looks familiar but I asked a week ago and did not find a solution.

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