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Raspberry Pi NAS: Build a Raspberry Pi Samba Server

by Gus | May 11, 2015 | Beginner, Servers | 126 comments
A Raspberry Pi NAS or network attached storage is the perfect way to have les available to anyone within your local network. It is a relatively
easy process to set this up and being low powered allows for it to be on 24/7 without costing you a fortune in power bills.
Once you have setup your rst drive correctly you will nd this process to be incredibly easy to repeat. You may come across some
complications when rst setting it up these problems are usually caused by having the permissions set incorrectly.
One other thing that I should mention is that if youre looking for blazing fast speeds then youre unlikely to get them with the Pi. This is due to
having to use the USB ports (2.0) to connect a hard drive and the network interfaces. (100 mbps Ethernet or WiFi)
Check out the video below to see how to setup your very own NAS in no time. If you like what you see then please subscribe so you stay up to
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Equipment
I used the following equipment for this Raspberry Pi NAS tutorial.
Recommended:
Raspberry Pi
4 GB SD Card (8 GB+ Recommended) or Micro SD Card if youre using a Raspberry Pi 2 or B+
Ethernet Cord or Wi dongle
External Hard drive
Optional:
Raspberry Pi Case
USB Keyboard
USB Mouse
Note: The USB ports on the Raspberry Pi might not be enough to power an external drive so you might need to invest in a powered USB hub.
Setting up the Raspberry Pi NAS

In this tutorial I use the standard operating system for the Raspberry Pi. This is Raspbian, if you would like to install it then check out my guide
on how to install Raspberry Pi NOOBS.
Mounting The Hard drives

The rst thing before we setup the NAS is mount the external hard drives. This is important that we do this correctly the rst time otherwise we
could end up with issues later on. You want to be able to mount a drive so it will always be the same even if the Pi loses power or reboots.
1. Bring up the Raspberry Pi terminal either by using SSH or on the Pi itself.
2. First lets bring Raspbian up to date by entering the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
3. We will want to install ntfs support so lets rst install the package.
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
4. Next we want to nd our external hard drive to do this enter the following command.
sudo fdisk -l
5. There should be two lots of drives that pop up unless you have more than 1 drive connected. The rst would be the SD card that Raspbian
is currently running on (Should be something like /dev/mcbblkop1) ignore this one.There should also be another one that looks similar to
/dev/sda1 this is the drive that we will use.
6. Before we mount the drives we will need to create a directory to mount to. To do this enter the following command. (Remember to x up the
command with the correct drive name)
sudo mkdir /media/NASHDD1
7. Now before we continue we will need to create a user to login as. To do this enter the following. Note: Update the word pimylifeup to
change the user name.
sudo useradd pimylifeup -m -G users

sudo passwd pimylifeup
8. You will be prompted to enter a password twice, be sure to remember this password as you may need it later on.
9. Next we need to get the gid and the uid, make sure you write these down as we will need them in the next step. Update pimylifeup with the
user you created above.
For the gid enter the following:
id -g pimylifeup
For the uid enter the following:
id -u pimylifeup
10. Now we need to edit the fstab le so our Pi will automatically mount the drive on boot up and set the correct permissions, to do this enter
the following command:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
11. Add the following the line to the bottom of the le. Changing the /dev/sda1 to whatever your hard drive is and updating uid and gid as
appropriate. (The code below is all one line)
/dev/sda1 /media/NASHDD1 auto nofail,uid=enter_uid_here,gid=enter_gid_here,noatime 0 0
12. Reboot the Raspberry Pi and the drives should automatically mount with the correct permissions.
Now that we have completed mounting the drives to the folders we can now move onto setting up the samba server. If you wish to make edits
to the folder do the changes into the mounted folder. For example if we wanted to make a new directory we would enter the following.
sudo mkdir /media/NASHDD1/share
Setting up the Raspberry Pi Samba Server

In this part we will download and install the samba package so we can have a Raspberry Pi samba server up and going. If you want more
information on the package and its documentation you can check out the Samba website.
1. First we will need to install the samba package by entering the following command:
sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin
2. Just in case we make any mistakes along the way we should back up the samba con g folder. To do this enter the following command:
sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.old
3. Now lets edit the con g le by entering the following:
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
4. There are several edits we will need to make to this le, rst remove the # from the security = user line.
5. Next we will need to add our hard drive to the samba con g le. Enter the following to add your hard drive as a share (Update the path if you
have something different):
[NAS]
comment = NAS Folder
path = /media/NASHDD1
valid users = @users
force group = users
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0771
read only = no
6. Ill quickly explain what each of the things mean above so you have a better understanding the Raspberry Pi Samba Server.
[NAS]: This is the name of the share (What you will see in le explorer)
Comment: This is a comment for the associated for share.
Path: Path to the folder you wish to share.
Valid User: A list of users that are allowed to login to this share.
Force Group: This speci es a UNIX group name that will be assigned for all users connecting to this share.
Directory Mask: This creates a permission mask for all directories created on the drive.
Read Only: This allows you to set the share to be read only.
7. Now restart the samba server by entering the following command:
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
8. Finally you will need to connect the user to samba do this by entering the following:
sudo smbpasswd -a pimylifeup
Testing the Raspberry Pi NAS

Now we have it all setup we will need to test to make sure everything is con gured properly. This is very easy to test so I will go through an
example of both Windows and Mac.
Once you have done this test you should now have a full working Raspberry Pi Samba Server. Be sure to check out the many other Raspberry Pi
projects and guides we have on here. Have troubles or improvements to this tutorial leave us a comment below!
Windows
If you have a windows PC please do the following to access the Raspberry Pi NAS.
1. On a windows PC open up le explorer.
2. Click on network in the left hand column.
3. In here open up Raspberry Pi.
4. Double click on the folder.
5. Enter the credentials.
6. You should now be able to save, edit and delete les in this folder.
Mac
If you have a Mac please do the following to gain access to the NAS.
1. Click on go in the top bar and navigate to connect to server.
2. In here add the IP address of the Pi or browse to the Raspberry Pi. (You will need to specify the folder)
3. Enter your credentials.
4. You should now be able to save, edit and delete les within this folder.
Thats it, you should now be successfully connected to your NAS and be able to read and write les. If youre having trouble with les copying to
the drive then its likely your permissions are incorrect, be sure to double check what you have entered.
I hope that you now have the Raspberry Pi NAS up and running without any issues. If you do come across any problems or have questions then
be sure to leave a comment below.
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126 Comments
Dave on May 13, 2015 at 4:38 am
Hi There, I followed your guide, and i can see the folder being shared on my windows machine, but I cant create a le. It just
says that I dont have the right permissions.
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Gus on May 13, 2015 at 1:23 pm

Hi Dave,
I just noticed a slight mistake in the tutorial. Can you double check the uid and gid in the fstab le.
Replacing pimylifeup with your own user name the following will get you the uid
id -u pimylifeup
The following will get you the gid:
id -g pimylifeup
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Oscar on February 22, 2016 at 6:54 am

Hey Gus,
It still says i dont have the right permissions, Ive done everything on your guide. This is on a mac.
Peter on September 17, 2016 at 8:03 am

Gus, great build instructions, followed the build and once I connected to the PI drives from Windows and tried to create
a test le, was blocked with a permissions issue, which I resolved via CHMOD, which might be overkill, any way I can
write to the drives from Windows. But my biggest gotcha is this; I am using 2 identical thumb drives, 32gb each, but
from Windows I can only see 9gb available, whereas within the PI I see 28.9gb, moving on I want to repeat the exercise
using 1tb disks for a backup environment. Any suggestions? btw the disks were formatted as NTFS
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Jonas Storm on June 13, 2015 at 8:19 am
Hey, I hope you can help me. I have followed your guide, change the user to Jonas and so on. The problem it that i cant access
the folder from my windows computer. And thanks for the guide.
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Gus on July 11, 2015 at 1:42 pm

Hey Jonas,
Sorry for a bit of a late reply.
Can you see the folder at all? Is there a particular error popping up ?
Please let me know, ill be happy to help you get it working.
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Mike on January 15, 2017 at 6:23 pm

Hello Gus,
I have the same problem as Jonas in that I cannot see the RaspberryPi available as a device. The new android
TV is there- could this be part of the problem?
Jay on June 16, 2015 at 2:06 am

Hi.. thanks for perfect tutorial. One question. A have raspbian + KODI. How to mount my hdd to see in kodi openELEC?
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Jay on June 16, 2015 at 3:54 am

Maybe I didnt explain correctly. I did all according your tutorial and all work well.
But if I start OpenELEC_Pi2 Im not able to see or add my HDD connected to raspberry.
Thanks for any update or help.
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Barry Horne on July 6, 2015 at 2:54 am

Thanks for the tutorial. Having set up the NAS I can see it on my Windows machine but not on my Raspberry Pi 2 workstation.
How do I see the NAS under Raspbian?
Thanks
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Hey Barry,
If you open up le manager within the Raspbian GUI (Menu->Accessories->File Manager) and then got the top menu bar
and select GO->Network. This will load up your network and the machine with the drive should be shown. If you double
click on the machine it will ask for credentials and then login and your drive should be shown.
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Patrick on September 11, 2015 at 6:42 am
Thanks for the tutorial, just one (or so) question. I have made sure my HDD is mounted, and can see it on a
MAC machine, however I cant see it on the RPI2. I also have no permissions on either machine; please help.
POPMUZIK on July 19, 2015 at 9:03 am

I found this command helped me see that Drive in Raspbian:
sudo mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /media/Name_of_Your_Drive
I did that command after the sudo mkdir /media/NASHDD1 command during this tutorial.
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MAds Henriksen on December 2, 2015 at 1:13 am

Thank you POPMUZIK, that solved my problem with permission issues and not being able to create les in my
nas folder from Windows.
Mark Epskamp on July 11, 2015 at 9:02 am

Hi i also cannot add folders or items to the shared folder. my mac tells me i have not the su cient read rights??
UID and GID are correct.
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Hi Mark,
Can you please run the following.
ls - l /media/NASHDD1
Replacing NASHDD1 with the name you gave the folder.
It should come back as your user having permissions if not there may be an issue with the drive mounting. To check
just double check the drive is at the right address (eg. /dev/sda1) and the fdisk line is correct (Make sure the drive is
connected at boot up)
Let me know how you go and Ill be happy to help you further.
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Michal on August 5, 2015 at 11:56 pm

Hi Gus,
I have a question. How fast can you access les from your windows computer? How fast can you copy to and from NAS?(One
big le to make it easier)
Btw. really nice tutorial.
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POPMUZIK on August 6, 2015 at 4:56 am

Its pretty much instant access from my Windows pc to my RPi nas. I am able to transfer data around 6-8 MBps (Megs
per second) using my wireless N adaptor from my Windows to router. My RPi is hardwired/ network cable into my
router for max speed. My data transfer speed is consistent whether its a 50mb or 2gb le, hope this helps
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Manuel on September 4, 2015 at 5:56 pm

Hi Gus!
I really appreaciate your tutorial. I will build it at home. Could you tell us something about the performance? I mean, transfer
rates to other PCs and streaming 1080p les to the Raspberry Pi.
In addition, what about to format the HDD in ext4 system les?
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Pieter on September 4, 2015 at 7:38 pm

hi,
everything works just ne untill the command

sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
now Im totaly stuck, some suggestions?
thx
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Gus on September 12, 2015 at 11:24 am

Hi Pieter,
Are you getting any errors when you run that command?
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Leo on September 21, 2015 at 8:14 am

Hi Gus, same issue as Pieter here.
It appears samba does not exist under /etc/init.d
how can I validate that samba installed correctly?
Thanks!
Leo on September 21, 2015 at 8:43 am

Fixed it I forgot samba on the
sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin
command line.
Solved by running
sudo apt-get install samba
Thanks!
Leo
Doan on September 10, 2015 at 5:55 am

Hi there, thanks for your guide! I set it up and everything seems to work. However, after creating several folders (like [NAS]) in
Samba it seems everything I create in one folder gets copied to the others. I am trying to set up one shared folder and one
folder for each person on my network. Is this possible?
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Hi Doan,
In order create independent folders for each user in the Raspberry Pi NAS you need to change the following lines in our
folder setup: (replace with the unix username.

to
valid users =
If youre not already doing for each [] folder you create you need to specify a new folder.. I recommended something
like:
path = /media/NASHDD1//
Please let me know how that goes!
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rob on July 11, 2016 at 1:51 am

Hi. I have followed this tutorial and it works ne with just the [NAS] folder. However when I try to add different
folder by putting:
[User1]
comment = User1 Personal Folder
path = /media/HDD01
valid users = user1
force group = users
create mask = 0660
read only = no
this creates the new folder but everything is copied into that AND the [NAS] folder.
i tried the steps above but the problem continued..

any help please
Paul on September 10, 2015 at 7:42 am

Following your guide sudo useradd paul m G users
..just displays the useradd help text, and no user is created.
Raspbian + Ras Pi v2
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marosh on September 12, 2015 at 4:03 am

Same problem as Paul
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Hi Paul & Marosh!
I have looked into this! There was an issue with that particular line on this page. The dashes were converted to
something Raspbian doesnt understand!
Anyway I have now xed it up! Can you try using the following line and let me know how it goes!
sudo useradd paul -m -G users
Subhajit on September 14, 2015 at 12:28 am

I have followed all the steps, but still the folder not accessible from Windows machine. It prompts for credentials and after
giving them, It says, Windows cant access \\raspberryPi\Shared Folder Name.
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Andrew on September 17, 2015 at 11:40 am
Have you managed to get Samba 4.3 working; not as an AD controller but just as a le server?
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Vijay on September 23, 2015 at 2:22 am

Hi Gus,
Great NAS tutorial with awesome explanations.
This is my rst project with Raspberry pi 2 model B.
I did all the steps as per your tutorial and successfully achieved.
However, on my windows 7 PC I am able to see the folders namely nas and mynamedrive, but i do not have write permissions
on both the folders.
I cant create les in that folders, its giving error you do not have permission for this action.
Please help me to resolve
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Hi Vijay,
It sounds like the drive has been mounted with the incorrect permissions or has failed to mount.
If you run the following command it will give you the user and group assigned to the mounted drive.
ls -l /media/mynamedrive
If this displays a user/group that is different to the one youre trying to login as then try running through step 9,10,11
but making sure you assign the correct user. It is also important to note the fstab code in step 11 should all be on one
line. If you place this on two lines then the drive will fail to mount and you may get an error like youre describing.
Hope this helps!
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Vijay on September 23, 2015 at 5:46 pm

Thank you Gus, it works..
Tim on September 24, 2015 at 11:03 pm

Hi Gus,
Problem; 8. Finally you will need to connect the user to samba do this by entering the following: sudo smbpasswd a
pimylifeup
It looks like nothing happens here, ive tried changing pimylifeup to my username but still it appears to do nothing.
Im able to see the NAS folders in explorer, but cant access them because of username/password issue.
Thanks in advance! really appreciate this tutorial
Kind regards, Tim
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Gus on September 24, 2015 at 11:47 pm

Hi Tim,
Can you please try running the following command:
cat /etc/passwd
This should give you a list of users currently created on your Pi.
sudo pdbedit -L -v
If no users appear. Try running this line again but copy it from below.
sudo smbpasswd -a pimylifeup
Hope this helps!
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Hey Gus,
Thanks for the quick reply, putty was still open, so i was able to ll everything in somehow im able to access
the drives now.
Im curious, what did i do wrong? and what did your commands change to it?

Hi Tim,
Its most likely you did nothing wrong. There was an error with dash(-) in the code(- Correct, Wrong). I thought
I had caught them all but this one appears to have slipped through.
I have xed this up now sorry for the inconvenience!

One more question,
Everything works like a charm, im able to access everything with every device in my house.
Transfer speed the top speed i get from my (Laptop) is 2,45MB/s im using WiFi for this, the RPi is wired.
My current OS is Windows 10, im currently using two routers, both suffer from the same speed, same thing happens when i
use my gfs macbook.
Maybe theres a way to tweak something?
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Marko on April 10, 2016 at 8:48 pm

I am having the same problem on windows 10 and macbook
Did you manage to increase transfer speed?
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Marko on April 11, 2016 at 7:51 am

I have the same question.
Did you manage to tweak it or increase the speed?
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RobV on September 26, 2015 at 1:08 pm

For my rst serious pi-roject and after many web-tuts yours nally worked. well sort of. I had to backtrack with rm -rf , rmdir
and del user a few times but i got there.
But some puzzles remain.
Accessing it from various PC and Macs gives me both options of mounting as NASHDD1 and public. After some
experimenting it seems an external visitor needs to have a user level identity, which is the reason for ( in my case ) public
However creating a user public ( equiv. to your pimylifeup ) was not really required to the process? could I have just added user
pi at Step 8 ( sudo smbpasswd -a pi )? and invite my colleagues in by distributing the pi user.
or is this a security risk in other areas?
I take it the after Step 12 is purely optional
The next step for me is to set up port forwarding on my router, but which is the correct or expected landing point?
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Gordon on September 29, 2015 at 5:44 pm

Gus, great tutorial. Thanks. What code do I need to change to add additional hard drives?
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Gus on September 29, 2015 at 6:07 pm

Hi Gordon,
The code in step 5 of Raspberry Pi Samba Server section, simply add another block of this into the samba con g le
(Probably underneath your current one).
Make sure you change the name in the square brackets and the path to the drive.
If you need to mount the drive just back through the steps in the mounting the hard drives section.
Hope this helps!
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Luke on October 4, 2015 at 9:34 pm

Great tutorial.
I noticed we didnt use the mount command. Should we have done this at some point? I tried umount /dev/sda1 (because I
want to eject the drive) but it says that it wasnt mounted.
Also, when I cat proc/mounts I cant see /dev/sda1
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Gus on October 5, 2015 at 2:48 pm

Hi Luke,
We store our mount info in the fstab le so that our mount is restored on reboot. (Essentially the same as using the
mount command)
You should target the umount command to the mounted directory as show in the command below:
sudo umount /media/ownclouddrive
That will remove the mount point and you should now be able to safely remove the drive.
If youre not seeing the drive/mount folder in /proc/mounts then it is possible the drive never successfully mounted.
Hope this helps!
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Luke on October 5, 2015 at 8:46 pm

Thanks Gus. Although the share was working, it turns out the external never mounted properly, so what I
thought was being stored on the external HDD was actually being stored on the Pis micro SD card at
/media/NASHDD1.
Ill go back and review the fstab section. Cheers.
Vijay Kumar on October 13, 2015 at 3:48 pm

Hi Gus,
I want to access my NAS drive over the internet. I have forward the port 21 (ftp) in my router. Is this correct port for accessing
my NAS drive
Please suggest, how can i access my NAS drive
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Jim on October 19, 2015 at 10:39 pm

Hi Thanks for the nice Tutorial, better than the one i read before..
my problem:
the /etc/samba/smb.conf I have looks different, there is no
security = user line or documentation for this.
My Authenti cation paragraph starts like this:
####### Authentication #######

# Server role. Defines in which mode Samba will operate. Possible
# values are "standalone server", "member server", "classic primary
# domain controller", "classic backup domain controller", "active
# directory domain controller".
etc
Is that a different samba version? mine is 4.1.17-Debian..

Anyway, I cant get it to work.
Thanks!
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Gus on October 20, 2015 at 5:27 pm

Thanks Jim, It is possible samba has updated since I did this tutorial. I will need to look into it and work out whats
happening!
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Clyde on October 21, 2015 at 2:11 pm

Hi
just ignore and enter the code as shown in this tutorial..thanks Gus Works like charm!
security = user
[NAS]
force group = users
create mask = 0660
read only = no
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Steve on March 6, 2017 at 5:39 am
I had the same issue, I didnt have the #security = user so I just added in security = user as a new line at
the top of the authentication section and all is working great.
Thanks
Franklin on November 16, 2015 at 11:47 am

Hi Gus,
Everything worked out ne, but it seems I cannot upload anything to the NAS as I get an error that the le is either to big, or I do
not have permission to access some of the items
Hope you can help me out!
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Gus on December 7, 2015 at 8:27 pm

Hi Franklin,
If even small les are not transferring it is probably an issue with permissions.
Can you try adding adding writeable = yes underneath [NAS] in step 5 and then restart samba.
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ira on November 22, 2015 at 11:07 am

why is it doing this?
pimylifeup@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin

[sudo] password for pimylifeup:
pimylifeup is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
pimylifeup@raspberrypi ~ $
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You have logged in as pimylifeup and it isnt in the list of authorized users to use the command sudo.
You can either add the user into the list of sudoers which I do not recommend or log back in as pi
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Ira Robinson on November 24, 2015 at 10:08 am

Hello, Im trying to make a torrent box.. Im having trouble with nas part though. Im not able to make folders in the nas at the
end. It says something about permissions.. Im trying to set it up with a 64g usb and tried using the usb mount guide to start
but Im not sure its mounting. Ive tried setting up the nas using the noob setup then Ive tried agen after using Jessie with the
usb guide but still get permission problems.
There is no security=user to change in samba?
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Kea on December 1, 2015 at 4:33 am

Hi Gus,
I followed your guide and set up the NAS. It is working but one issue when copying a 300mb folder. A message pops up not
enough space in the NAS when there is plenty of free space. To narrow down the issue, I tried to copy one le 2mb in the
folder to NAS, it worked with no issue. So it is only relatively big le/folder has the issue. Please help. Thanks.
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Darryl on December 4, 2015 at 5:15 am

Im trying to setup Samba access to my Pi so I can add/remove les for my website. Since Im using the Rasp Pi Zero, and
inputs are few, and the website itself is tiny, Im going to host it on the MicroSD directly.
Now the problem:
I can setup the whole thing ne. I can see it from Windows etc. HOWEVER, I have NO write priviledges to the speci ed folder (in
my case media/website) I can read any folders I create via the command line etc, but I cant do anything from my Windows
machine. It just says that I dont have priviledges for this.
Can someone please help??
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Hi Darryl,
As the comment below suggests can you try adding writeable = yes underneath [NAS] in step 5 and then restart
samba.
If that works then something has changed since I did this tutorial and I will update it accordingly.
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James on December 7, 2015 at 5:43 pm

I was unable to write to the NAS folder as others have mentioned, I had to add the following command to the smb.conf le.
writeable = yes
I placed it just about path = /media/NASHDD1
Thanks for this write up!
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Gokul on December 13, 2015 at 12:18 am

Need help
raspberry pi(nas folder) is not showing in my network after shutdown and start. Also tried restarting samba manually but its
not working. Dont know whats the problem..
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Peter on December 19, 2015 at 6:19 am

i have followed this guide and apparently i dont have all the space. im trying to transfer movie les in to the NAS but it says i
dont have space
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Amir Segal on December 19, 2015 at 7:44 am

Hi,
I had the same permission issue many were talking about here, and the solution to my problem was to change the
/media/NASHDD1 folder permission with the follwoing:
sudo chown -R MyUser:users NASHDD1
I dont know if I missed something in he tutorial.
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Jon on February 7, 2016 at 2:31 pm

Thanks for the tip. To get mine to function right for the permission, I had to mess with what you wrote until it worked.
For anyone else that might be struggling, this is what worked for me:
sudo chown -R pimylifeup /media/NASHDD1
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Brian Cok on February 8, 2016 at 2:00 am

Amir, that solved my permissions issue as well. Thanks!
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Bram on December 22, 2015 at 3:20 am

Hi
I got a tip for you all. If you dont know the ip of your pi, you can use the smartphone-app ng (yes with the f). The app shows
all the devices in your network and the ip adresses!
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Kelly on January 18, 2016 at 5:14 am

Hi Gus, My complements on your high-quality tutorials. I was able to follow along and get the NAS set up on the rst try, and
this stuff is all new to me.
Along the lines of an earlier comment, I would like to access this outside of my local network, via the internet. It would be great
if you could post instructions on how to enable this, and have the NAS drive accessible through windows explorer, ie. the same
way as Im able to access it internal to my network. The MAC equivalent would be nice to see as well. Thanks so much!
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Sean on January 19, 2016 at 3:56 am

Hi Gus. Been having a problem with mounting the NTFS drive and have been driving myself up the proverbial wall. It keeps
saying that the drive is already mounted and in use. Noticed in your review (and several others online) that your example hard
drive is W95 FAT 32 not NTFS. Not sure if my drive should be FAT 32 or NTFS. Please advise and thanks for your hard work.
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Lennert on January 27, 2016 at 10:07 pm

I cant nd the security = user line line in my samba con g- le
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Darryl on January 28, 2016 at 8:33 pm

Lennert,
Me neither. I think the newer version of the app doesnt have it. So just manually add it in. Thats what I did.
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pieter on February 22, 2016 at 2:01 am
just want to mention it is really super! thnks, works great . i like your projects. For a novice it is very good!
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Rack on February 28, 2016 at 3:19 am

Im having a problem after trying to set this up. When its connected to the network I can copy les across but the network is
constantly resetting whenever my Pi is connected to the router.
Im guessing Ive somehow set into a loop of reconnecting itself, but Ive no idea how. Do you know how I might x this?
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Rack on February 28, 2016 at 7:11 pm

Ive discovered this was caused by having the Pi too close to my router. Moving it further away dramatically improved
the problem but didnt completely solve it. It still seems strange this would happen though, I dont know if theres
something up with my Pi or my Router (BT Home Hub 3) since I seem to be the only one with this issue.
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Nojus on February 29, 2016 at 7:05 pm

Thats a bit strange. Are you connecting your Pi with a cable?
Nojus on February 29, 2016 at 6:59 pm

Hello, I cant get the NAS working. Something is wrong with the permissions, I cant add , remove or edit les Can someone
help me? I did everything like the tutorial said
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Kevin on March 31, 2016 at 7:52 am

Hi Gus
Thanks for this great tutorial have had this up and running with great results, just what i needed
Originally I had it running with one hdd and decided to add a second, added the second drive and worked perfect, then decided
to run with just one drive again so removed the drive, but it will not boot without the second drive.
Thanks for your hard work and any solution
Kevin
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Kevin on March 31, 2016 at 8:44 am

Hi Gus
I have been looking into my problem and have found that if i go to sudo nano /etc/fstab
and comment out the drive, the pi will boot again, but was wondering if there was a way where you could just
disconnect the drive as and when without going to /etc/fstab
Thanks Kevin
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Pospa on October 4, 2016 at 9:28 pm

I have pretty much same issue. Im using just one HDD, but for example when I had short power cut, my HDD
didnt turn back on and my Pi didnt boot up because of this. So I was without connection to it whole day until I
went home, switched it on and rebooted Pi.
John on April 10, 2016 at 4:57 pm
i have a question, when i plug in my external hdd, let say hdd1.
The path was media/pi/hdd1???
should i do that with mounting in,
sudo mkdir /mediapi/hdd1
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Eric M on April 20, 2016 at 1:39 am

Hello,
I had an issue that I cannot solve. I have gone through the steps several times and cannot track down the error. Everything
works up until I try to log into my pi through windows. The drive shows up (I can see the folder) and everything but it will not
take my name and password. And actually, once I typed in the line sudo smbpasswd -a pimylifeup, a second folder
became viewable next to the NAS folder named pimylifeup. I can go in this folder without a name/password (it is empty), but
cannot enter the NAS folder without name and password (which it will not accept).
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Antonio on April 28, 2016 at 1:13 am

Fantastic Tutorial,
Congratulations!
Though I did not understand the use for the user credentials and how to make the thing not read only.
I access the NAS folders ne. Only cannot create folders.
Maybe there is an issue with mounting the drives automatically that should be added to tutorial.
I found that the NTFS drive must be formatted and properly closed in Windows or it will not mount unless you use option ro.
read only.
Do you have an update for us to auto mount drive as to have server running automatically with correct credentials?
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Rob Latour on May 4, 2016 at 11:46 am

Perfect thanks so much for taking the time to post this it worked like a charm!
(However, as noted in the comments the

security = user
line needs to be completely added in as it no longer appears with a hashtag in front of it in the smb.conf le)
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GYC on May 7, 2016 at 12:50 am

I have one windows 10 and another with ubuntu. Can ubuntu PC also connect to RP server?, what changes is necessary, I can
install samba on ubuntu.
thanks,
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JaegerBudgie on May 19, 2016 at 1:51 am

I get to the sudo nano /ect/fstab command, but it opens a blank page. I am using Raspbian Jessie, version May 2016. Please
help!
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Paul Correa on May 22, 2016 at 4:20 am

Hi Gus,
I followed the guide to the tee and got the exact results promised. One note, my samba did not have a line security = users but I
added it about [NAS] amd the results worked perfectly. Thank you !
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Sritam on May 25, 2016 at 12:35 am

I need help when i reboot my Pi 3 model b some times my external harddrives gets /dev/sdb1 and sometimes it gets /dev/sda1
i am facing issues in sharing it please help any help would be highly appretiated.
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Devesh Vyas on July 4, 2016 at 2:33 am

Hey Gus,
I have many videos and songs in my external hard drive ,
is it possible to view them on the server ?
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andre on July 7, 2016 at 5:51 am

I Get all done but a few days later i get this error a start job is running for dev-sda1.device do you know how to x it?
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Joe Cooper on July 14, 2016 at 7:12 am

THANK YOU!!! I had been stuck on this, and followed just about every guide. This one is the only one that actually worked.
I actually formatted my 4TB, reinstalled Raspbian on my Pi, and followed your guide and it works a treat!
11.1MB/s speeds though, which is the network adapter max on the pi.
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joe reid on July 25, 2016 at 7:16 am

will i be able to access the pi to transfer downloaded les onto a usb stick and then insert the stick into my mac and transfer
the les to AHDD i am using as a source in a plex server ?
or even better will i be able when logging into the pi remotely from the mac , copy les from the storage attached to the pi and
paste them in the HDD attached to my mac ?
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Ritch-Erd on August 5, 2016 at 1:19 pm

Thank you Gus! It works!
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maverickk on August 7, 2016 at 3:34 am
did everything as you did but when i go and try to look at the nas le on my PC it gives me error code 0x80070043 witch is the
network name cant be found
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Jacob on August 18, 2016 at 12:42 am

Hi Gus,
When I try to connect through my Mac, I am being told that there is a connection problem. I suspect that it is in my setup.
When I edited the Samba con g le, I was not able to nd the part:
security = user
which means that I could not remove the #. It seems that they have updated the con g le since you made your update. Any
suggestions?
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gtj on September 21, 2016 at 11:33 pm

Hi Gus,
May I ask if there is a way for the server to put the external HDD to sleep when not been in use? I can see my HDDs blue led
permanently on and the HDD itself consumes around 0.10A according to charger doctor.
A samba server I tried based on Windows 10 core (RPi version) puts the drive to sleep but that server is not accessible from
Android devices for some reason, thus, its a dealbreaker for me. This one works ok with all my devices but I dont want my
drive to be powered 24/7 as Im not intended to use the server more than 1-2 times a day.
Another question is if the RPI Zero is powerful enough to run this server?
Many thanks
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Rich on September 29, 2016 at 1:15 am

Hi Gus,
Thank you for this guide! Very thorough, and its great that you added video & text instructions. I had it setup very quickly.
I had just one hiccup where the security = user didnt show up on my con g le. I xed it by adding security = user under
[Global].
Finally, if in the future I wanted to add a secondary HDD will it work just connecting the HDD or do I follow certain steps?
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Erich.Zann on October 6, 2016 at 6:12 am

I am using a hard drive from an old windows machine that has les on it I want to be able to view/modify. When I use the GUI
they are located at /media/pi/Windows_Drive_name can I change in the fstab /media/pi/Windows_Drive_name and
that will be the shared drive/folders?
Also when I did sudo fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type

/dev/sda1 1985 1953519615 1953517631 931.5G f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2048 1953519615 1953517568 931.5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
When I did the fdisk for some reason I used /dev/sda2 (instead of 1 or 5).
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Raman Mehat on October 8, 2016 at 7:14 am
Hello,
I used you instructions and I get my hdd working (hfsplus) but then I dont get write access cant create folder inside the folders
I have on the hard drive. So not sure what to do from here.
Thanks
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Piznti on November 11, 2016 at 3:26 pm

Man i love this setup. i have two hds on there now, i found your comment when i couldnt gure it out myself. anyway i was
curious if it was possible to put dropbox onto the system? like have a folder i could drop stuff into on the nas that also gets
uploaded to dropbox? this would help me get it off my small laptop hd. thanks for all the guides. i also have a plex server on
here tied to the nas.
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Peacemaker (Daniel) on November 27, 2016 at 3:23 pm

Hi, I can not nd it on my Windows PC. I can nd the Raspberry Pi on my Mac without an issues but for some reason I cant nd
it on my Windows PC.
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Aidan on December 11, 2016 at 5:13 am

Hi
I am able to login into the NAS server on my Mac, but none of the folders on the drive are displayed.
Help!
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Henry Jones on December 14, 2016 at 7:34 am

Hey im on windows 10 and it wont allow me to write anything to the le
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Gokul on December 15, 2016 at 3:01 am

Henry you have to set the permission on the pi the problem is from there
Did you add the security = user in the samba con g- le?
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Antonio on December 19, 2016 at 6:34 am

I have an ext4 external hard drive and Im trying to run the fstab command using Raspbian Jessie. I entered the commands
exactly but I still get an error that it didnt mount upon startup.
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Dario on January 7, 2017 at 11:50 pm

I have a problem with my NAS as well. I can read the les without a problem but I cant add any les to the NAS. I added the
writeable = yes in the samba con g but its still not working. My Mac always tells me Items cant be copied to NAS because
you dont have permission to read them.
To me that does not even make sense. Why to I need reading rights to write it on the drive? Thanks for your help!
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Mike on January 9, 2017 at 2:23 am

Hi Gus, thank you for sharing the NAS Project.
I followed it and it works on my MACbook and my USB 3.0 powered USB hub.
Just wondering if you know a workaround (embedded USB 2.0 ports) to speed up the le transfer speed through wi ?
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Kyle on January 22, 2017 at 4:00 am

I can see the nas drive in windows explorer, but is says /nas/ is not accessible. Did I miss a step? I am using the user id I
created in the tutorial.
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mike on March 13, 2017 at 7:22 am

sudo chown -hR pi:users /nas/folder_inside_nas
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Rama on January 29, 2017 at 9:41 am

I noticed a permission issue with the Samba con g. Windows permissions are not the same as linux and how samba maps
permissions.
Try instead:

force group = users
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
public = yes
create mask = 0644
read only = no
Make sure the correct CHMOD permissions were set on the existing directory (within the OS), if not, then there will still be
access permission issues.
I hope this helps someone out there!
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Dennis on February 24, 2017 at 10:19 am

Hi there! Thanks for the guide. It works perfectly. I have a request. Is it still possible to make an connection from the internet to
this network folder we had created, so I can access it from all over the world? I like to hear from you!
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Gus on February 25, 2017 at 4:20 pm
I believe this can be done by simply port forwarding a few different ports however the best solution and safest method
would be to setup a VPN.
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Dennis on February 26, 2017 at 1:31 am

Hi Gus, do you have an tutorial for me? Im not so home in programming a RP3 by myself. (a)
I like to hear from you!
Gus on March 7, 2017 at 7:43 pm

I just published a new tutorial that goes through an easyish way of getting a VPN setup. The VPN tutorial
nahrafqifahs on March 2, 2017 at 4:40 pm

Thank you for great project. I think Samba work better with wi other than OpenMediaVault (OMV) that use WLAN as internet
sharing. Smooth access via FX Explorer (android) and Wi HD (iPad).
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mike b on March 13, 2017 at 7:21 am

I followed your guide and I could see the media eld but not any folders inside media (i.e. NASHDD1). The problem was
permissions for me here is how I xed it
sudo chown -hR pi:users /media/NASHDD1
Hopefully this helps somebody out.
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andy on March 16, 2017 at 5:27 am

hi Gus im getting stuck on mounting HDD1 everything else works just cant mount hddapart from that great tuturial
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Matthew on April 3, 2017 at 3:16 am

Will Samba auto start when you restart the Pi
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Gus on April 3, 2017 at 1:44 pm

Yes it should auto start on restart.
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Courtney on May 1, 2017 at 4:08 am

Hi Gus,
Im still having an issue with being able to create folders or les inside the NAS from windows. It just tells me I need
permission to perform this action. I can see all of the folders and les I have in there just ne Im just not able to create any
new. Ive read all of the comments and tried the chown command with no luck. I even went back through the tutorial and
created a different user for samba, changed my mounting with the correct info for that user and still ran into the same issue. It
is just so close to being done, so any help you can provide would be great. Thank you in advance!
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Zeykit on May 3, 2017 at 7:57 pm

Hi, thanks for your tutorial. Do you now how I can access at my Pi NAS from the wi ?
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mike on May 30, 2017 at 8:25 pm

/dev/sda1 /media/NASHDD1 auto nofail,uid=enter_uid_here,gid=enter_gid_here,noatime 0 0
No such le directory?
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Robert G Smith on June 29, 2017 at 7:25 am

You might want to consider running iptables as a quick and dirty rewall on the samba server and have only local (your own)
computer access, say by IP address. That way, guests can use your network but not see your server.
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Jose Luis on July 3, 2017 at 5:45 am

Hi! I tried to create a plex media server with samba shares and 3 hdd connected to a raspi3.
so far, plex server works ne (thanks for yout tutorial!)
I tried samba with just one drive, and could see and map it in windows 10 a network drive.
when I connected the remaining drives, the assigned maps changed on pi (sda1 was the used one, now it was sdb1) so I
changed settings accordingly, enabled all three drives which are working ne on plex server but the raspberry dissapeared on
my windows.
I changed the hostname on raspi-con g to NASpi, but besides that I did nothing else.
I just wont appear on my windows at all. Plex server DOES show and works ne, but I need samba access to my les what
could it be? any advice? Thanks!
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Gepann13 on July 7, 2017 at 6:00 am

Hi Gus! I cant see my shared folder neither on my RPI3 nor on m Windows 10 PC. What seems to be the problem?
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Make sure your Windows PC has network discovery turned on (Located in Control Panel\Network and
Internet\Network and Sharing Center\Advanced sharing settings) otherwise you may not be able to
see network shares.
Also make sure samba is running and con gured correctly. You can check to see if samba is running by using the
following command: sudo /etc/init.d/samba status
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Chris on July 8, 2017 at 7:51 am

I followed directions but am not seeing the folder in windows explorer under Network. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks for the great tutorials.
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Setting up the Raspberry Pi NAS

Mounting The Hard drives

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

sudo mkdir /media/NASHDD1

sudo useradd pimylifeup -m -G users

For the uid enter the following:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

/dev/sda1 /media/NASHDD1 auto nofail,uid=enter_uid_here,gid=enter_gid_here,noatime 0 0

sudo mkdir /media/NASHDD1/share

Setting up the Raspberry Pi Samba Server

sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.old

3. Now lets edit the con g le by entering the following:

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Gus on May 13, 2015 at 1:23 pm

The following will get you the gid:

Oscar on February 22, 2016 at 6:54 am

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Gus on July 11, 2015 at 1:42 pm

Sorry for a bit of a late reply.

Please let me know, ill be happy to help you get it working.

Mike on January 15, 2017 at 6:23 pm

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Jay on June 16, 2015 at 3:54 am

Thanks for any update or help.

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Gus on July 11, 2015 at 1:47 pm

Can you please run the following.

Replacing NASHDD1 with the name you gave the folder.

Michal on August 5, 2015 at 11:56 pm

Btw. really nice tutorial.

POPMUZIK on August 6, 2015 at 4:56 am

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Pieter on September 4, 2015 at 7:38 pm

everything works just ne untill the command

Gus on September 12, 2015 at 11:24 am

Leo on September 21, 2015 at 8:14 am

It appears samba does not exist under /etc/init.d

how can I validate that samba installed correctly?

Leo on September 21, 2015 at 8:43 am

sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin

sudo apt-get install samba

Doan on September 10, 2015 at 5:55 am

Gus on September 12, 2015 at 11:23 am

valid users = @users

Please let me know how that goes!

rob on July 11, 2016 at 1:51 am

i tried the steps above but the problem continued..

Paul on September 10, 2015 at 7:42 am