Setup a NAS on your home server! How to create a samba server in Ubuntu 22.04

[@toddselby443]

Thanks for making this video and explaining everything so simply. This has been confusing me for the longest time and you showed how simple it is.

[@FE-Engineer]

You are welcome. Samba servers are awesome in my opinion. Glad that it helped you! Thank you for watching!

[@KazunaiOwO]

Hi, mine says: " the network folder specified is currently mapped using a different user name and password. To connect using a different user name and password, first disconnect any existing mappings to this network share. " when i try to map the network drive i logged in using a different account on the prompt but it doesnt do anything. Im logging in using the exact same credentials as i made my samba user and even my local user has the same name. Do you know any tips? Also if i use my windows pc account to log in (which it automatically puts the username for in the prompt and i cant change) it just says access denied.

[@Nazwatonazwa]

thank you VERY MUICH now ima buil a nas on rpi 4 for home lab and maybe keeping some files on it

[@jjpeters19861]

I have followed all of these steps but whenever I try to map the share I get the following error: "The network folder specified is currently mapped using a different user name and password. To connect using a different user name and password, first disconnect any existing mappings to this network share."

[@FE-Engineer]

Delete the existing map and retry. It’s probably a typo when you set it up

[@sjljc2019]

I tried a lot and followed all steps, but not able to access the samba share from Windows. Been on it for more than 2days. I am not sure what is happening wrong. Any help will be appreciated. My config: [share] path = /srv/samba/share browseable = yes read only = no guest ok = yes ufw status To Action From -- ------ ---- 22/tcp ALLOW Anywhere Samba ALLOW Anywhere 80 ALLOW Anywhere 22/tcp (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6) Samba (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6) 80 (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6)

[@FE-Engineer]

Can you hit it from a different Linux server or something? My guess would be that your samba is correct and you are trying to hit it incorrectly from windows.

[@sjljc2019]

@@FE-Engineer When I hit from some Cloud instances its working, but when I am using WSL for windows, its not working.

[@sayful617]

Hi, do I have to have two different servers to create a Plex media server. For example one that stores the media and the other just hosting the plex server or can it all be done on one server? thanks in advance for your help

[@FE-Engineer]

Oh no. You can have it all on one server :)

[@secret_ham]

Up until now I had one machine w/ a 14TB drive holding my media files as well as acting as the plex server, it works well. However, I have another machine (trash can mac pro) that I wanted to use as the plex server because the machine that has my media on it has really poor transcode performance. Using this video I set up the samba share on my storage machine and can now use the more powerful machine for plex hosting. Instructions in this video were very simple, thanks!

[@MoeOverload1]

Samba does not exist! why, I’ve been trying to get this to work for hours now what the hell did I do wrong

[@FE-Engineer]

Did you apt get install samba?

[@MoeOverload1]

@@FE-Engineer oh man was it a lot to figure out smb sharing on my windows machine was disabled and even after that for whatever reason after finally connecting samba still was broken… I gave up for now