Bug#933786: kodi: Kodi cannot access Samba Shares: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba: Permission denied

[kapqa <mrkapqa@gmail.com>]

Package: kodi
Version: 2:17.6+dfsg1-4+b1
Severity: normal

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Hello ,

i just installed Kodi from Debian 10 repository.

Found out that the Samba Share option (Windows network (SMB) gives error

"Error2: Share not available"



in Terminal the error shows up as

mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba: Permission denied



Noticed that this error was also present in Debian Stretch if i am not
mistaken.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages kodi depends on:
ii  kodi-bin   2:17.6+dfsg1-4+b1
ii  kodi-data  2:17.6+dfsg1-4

Versions of packages kodi recommends:
ii  kodi-repository-kodi [kodi-repository]  2:17.6+dfsg1-4
ii  kodi-visualization-spectrum             1.1.1-1

kodi suggests no packages.

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