How to make your own network drive (NAS) with Linux and Samba server

[@legendofmars889]

I had to come back to this a million times, thinking I would be fine if I don't have executable permissions... It is absolutely true that they are needed

[@WinstonCodesOn]

Thanks for the views 😁

[@noway2831]

Very helpful. Got it working on a VM (with a bridged adapter). I'll bookmark this

[@kylethomas1280]

Thanks for the video! I have a couple questions: -Why did you use Ubuntu desktop instead of Ubuntu server? -Does your server need to be connected to the router by ethernet or would wifi also work? -How did you get to your ciaostella network drive from the Mac? What did you do on the Mac itself to mount that as a network drive?

[@WinstonCodesOn]

I didn't really bother to compare desktop vs server editions, but for this use it didn't matter. My Arris BGW210 router provided by AT&T has a built in DNS that allows the computer name to be found. On the Mac I just go to Finder, Cmd+K, and then enter the address smb://ciaostella and it can be found, as long as I'm inside my house on the network.

[@cahuela]

Concise and helpful. Thanks.

[@TheMewzak]

What is Line Ux? XD

[@poulwinther]

Great, just what I needed! Did you try to set up a RAID as well? Does Samba handle that as well? (Zero Linux experience here) Thank you.

[@WinstonCodesOn]

RAID would be a hardware level setup, not anything to do with Samba, which is your network drive software. But, no I don't have a RAID. I just have it run a nightly backup using rsync.

[@falcy2889]

What did you do that your ubuntu installer looks terminal based instead of GUI? If I download Ubuntu Desktop and start installing it looks nothing like in the video

[@StefanWachtberger]

Hi, Thanks for this Video, helped a lot! Maybe I have done something wrong, but my additional user (like your jtkirk) has no wrtie access to the public folder..... do you agree!?

[@WinstonCodesOn]

Sounds like a permissions issue. Make sure jtkirk is part of the group that has write access to that folder.

[@skylerwatson5243]

Got everything working after some trial and error from the video. The only thing I couldn't get is that my Public folder said my logged in user did not have permissions. The only folder usable is the homes or my users own folder. Any way to make the public folder available to everyone? I have the same lines as from the screenshot.

[@WinstonCodesOn]

Does that folder have all the Unix permissions when you on are the server and do `ls -lha`? drwxrwxr-- 2 root homeshare 4.0K Dec 5 2020 public

[@osiris5449]

Very helpful!

[@Toby-tp4sd]

Lie-ni-x interesting pronounceation hehe

[@johnchaffey2766]

Can't read anything. No explanations.

[@WinstonCodesOn]

You mean the text in the video is too small? Stream in HD 1080p

[@poulwinther]

@@WinstonCodesOn I can read it just fine.

[@ankeivolta]

@@WinstonCodesOn I think John means the lack of contexts for some lines of code, sometimes previously there when your video cuts back to the terminal. Like your video is not noobie friendly.

[@imq3146]

you write quickly bro

[@insertnamehere4419]

Jesus Ubuntu is a lot of gibberish. Totally un-user friendly.

[@WinstonCodesOn]

Are you new to Linux? There's a lot to know and memorize if you're unfamiliar with it, and you learn it over time. Ubuntu gives you more libraries out of the box than other distributions of Linux. ChatGPT can really help with whatever you can't remember on the command line.