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Yes on the TV. When you browse your DLNA media then navigate to e.g. a file structure, by folder->my movies->08-dec-2020 (as an example folder structure) this can not be added to the home screen or quick access (http://kr.eguide.lgappstv.com/manual/w17/atsc/Contents/control/magicnumber_k_u_b/enga/w35__control__magicnumber_k_u_b__enga.html), which would be useful for navigating back to the folder instead of going through many clicks. To access media in DLNA I first need to go in to the gallery app. Your TV has a very different looking UI. Maybe they have added a few features too? UPNP and DLNA work ok, they are pretty much the same thing, DLNA is a newer version with some improvements I believe. LG only needed to implement DLNA for both to work, its lazy. As you see many people on the thread would like access to network shares via the other standards and protocols (samaba), nothing fancy. Apparently WebOS is based off of linux so it should be really easy to implement. I can't comment on the slow downs from using DLNA myself as I've not experienced them. I've heard of DLNA slowing NAS drives down. Whether its from indexing massive libraries or other functions I'm not sure. What I have had though is DLNA disappearing sometimes and reappearing randomly - sometimes I turn the TV on and it's just not there, my other devices can see it. Like you said there's no need/way to configure it, it just appears! This is good and bad, good for ease of use, bad if your TV doesn't see your device, IMO they should give us both options. Anyway Nice TV, enjoy it and Welcome! 🙂

Firstly thank you Ingemar for your suggestion 👍. I've looked at my Asus RT-AC87U and I can see that as well as your shares you probably have the setting USB Application -> Servers Centre -> Media Server ->Enable UPnP Media Server turned on, which does let the LG TV see the share via the UPnP . Unfortunately we wouldn't be able to see this on our TV if it were just a normal network share(samba). If you do connect a DLNA device and you then want to save a favourite folder link from the menu or on quick access etc, you can't. (noticed this while testing with DLNA device my other shares are samba). It'd be great if there were options to point the TV to the correct location NAS/Samba etc because we know it's there. I have the model OLED55B8PLA, it's still quite a bit under 2 years old. My input menu looks nothing like yours though. It does have a preview and the inputs are just listed on the left. --- I've concluded that It's actually ridiculous that this hasn't been implemented It also seems it will stay this way. Samba shares are usually easy to access from most operating systems and devices why LG decides to give us less connectivity options than other manufacturers is beyond my knowledge. I've had no reply from LG Support on 2 tickets that I had opened/raised with them so I eventually gave up. I love the quality of the OLED panel and the 2.2 sound system. Yet just because of the software I very much doubt my next TV will be LG. In the meantime I've used a Samsung TV, and Sony, both able to see the network shares (both a year or 2 older than mine). Sony being the best as the apps it has support for are great. Again if possible can anyone interested in this feature please request it to LG and post a ticket, you never know maybe you'll get a lucky response.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm set on just having access to my already working network shares. I don't really want my PC to be on all the time, or to go turn it on every-time I want access to the files on my TV. My NAS is already setup serving this purpose. I cant't seem to get 4k running through plex, perhaps the WD community version available to me isn't up to date enough. My easiest route right now is going to be attach my android TV device and open the network shares via an app on there e.g VLC or Kodi etc. It would just be nice if the TV supported it natively without the need for the extra hardware. I wrote to LG's support and suggestions via their website and posted a link to this forum, this thread in-particular. So I can only but hope they do read this thread 😀

Hi PeterV, Thanks for the reply and the idea, appreciated. I've been around this route, on my WD NAS drive (which is unable to officially support PLEX) I can use an adapted add-on by one of the WD community members. I'm unable to run certain movies, 4k etc through it as it's not powerful enough. I can stream 4k through the DLNA server but this seems to drop out, randomly, not whilst watching a film but sometimes after watching my LG TV refuses to see the DLNA server, sometimes it just doesn't see it at all. No other devices have any problem streaming from my NAS drive, mobile phones, tablets, laptops just my new TV. There's no way to tell the LG TV 'hey my DLNA server resides over at //SERVER or 192.* etc." this is one gripe but I'd rather it just be able to use network drives. Simple technology that's been around a long time and just works, at least on some of my friends Samsung and Sony TVs . LG Please add this feature

I recently purchased an LG OLED TV and couldn't believe it doesn't have this feature. DLNA isn't always possible. Checked all the Apps out just to see if one would allow me to view network drives/shares and they don't. PLEASE ADD THIS FEATURE.