Apple TV4 VLC sees SMB but folder empty I screwed something up. i just got vlc for apple tv 4 and enabled file sharing from my mac mini 2014 running high sierra 10.13.4. it ran great but it allowed anonymous login, so i thought i'd restrict it because I live in high rise and use wifi. Anyway, I deleted some users ('staff', "Everyone") and added a new admin. Now nothing works. vlc recognizes my computer in smb but when i try to access it the folder reads empty. Can't see anything on iphone app, either. is there someway to reset the thing? i tried diskutil resetUserPermissions / id -u in terminal, nothing doing.

Any advice would be appreciated. thank you
I had a similar issue - VLC would only show empty folders once connected - this was happening from the first time I opened VLC on my Apple TV.
My shares are also on a Mac Mini (2012 model) running 10.13.4
I got it to work by turning off file sharing, then disabling AFP sharing and only using SMB.
Once I turned file sharing back on, VLC could see all my shared folders.
To change sharing options, go into System Preferences, Sharing.

Oh, and I use a password-protected account called 'media' for accessing the shares from networked devices. I don't use anonymous logins.
Hope this helps, or you got the issue sorted already.

I'm also trying out the app 'infuse' and it looks nice, but with some videos it wants me to buy a subscription to use the app to continue, so not sure yet if it's something I'll stick with.