Setting Up Samba Shares

Setting up a SMB/Samba Share on Windows

Setting up a SMB/Samba Share on Windows

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NOTE YOU WILL NEED A LOCAL WINDOWS USER THIS WILL NOT WORK WITH A EMAIL LOGIN TO WINDOWS

HERES A TUTORIAL IF YOU WANT

How to Change Windows Email to Local User

1. Go to this PC and right click the drive you want and select Properties

2. Go to the sharing tab and click share

3. Then click on advanced sharing

4. Name the Share whatever you would like it to be

5. Click on permission and add a couple of users to this share

6. Add Network Service, Local Service, Guests

7. To do this click Add and select the advanced on the bottom

8. Click Find Now

9. Select the 3 accounts from step 6 and add them to your permissions

10. Then Click Ok

11. Then Click Allow all on the 3 added account permissions

12. Test to see if it works grab another windows PC or on your phone through a Samba client and type your internal ip of your samba share pc

my internal ip of my pc is 192.168.1.111 so i type into my folder search bar \\192.168.1.111 if you see your share your all set.

Nextcloud Setting up SMB/Samba Share

Nextcloud Setting up SMB/Samba Share

1. Login in as Adminstrator
2. Click on Apps

3. Enable External Storage and SMB Connection Test

4. Go into your docker-desktop and click on your nextcloud container and select the three dots where your nextcloud instance is shown and select terminal

5. Run the Following commands in terminal

apt update

apt upgrade

apt install nano

apt install smbclient

apt install smbclient libsmbclient-dev

5. Click on Administrative Settings

6. Under Adminstration select smb test

7. Type like below

Hostname: 192.168.1.111 (THIS WILL BE YOUR INTERNAL PC's IP) User: DemonWarrior (THIS WILL BE YOUR WINDOWS LOCAL USER) Workgroup: Workgroup Password: @@@@@@@ (THIS WILL BE YOUR WINDOWS LOCAL USER PASSWORD) Share: Jellyfin-Media (THIS WILL BE WHAT YOU NAMED YOUR SAMBA SHARE IN STEP 4 OF CREATING YOUR SAMBA SHARE)

8. Once you have succesfully loaded your Samba Test go to Adminstration ---> External Storage

Copy the settings from your Samba test to your external storage it should read.