![]() ![]() While that may work for a lot of people, I felt my Pi would be underutilized, I also wanted to run other services on my RPi and SSH/VNC into it while still being able to share my external USB drive over network.Įnter Samba server – Samba enables you to share local printer and files over network using SMB/CIFS protocol – that basically means you can access any partition or directory from your Raspberry Pi over your Linux, Windows, Mac OS and iOS devices – which is basically what you want in this case. While setting up a NAS server over your Raspberry Pi (or any other SBC) sounds cool, it typically requires flashing a completely specialized distribution on Raspberry Pi. ![]() I wanted to share this drive and its content over the home network and the most recommended and obvious solution was to set up a dedicated NAS server. I had a spare 2.5″ spinning hard drive lying around with USB to SATA adapter.
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