Could someone help me setup local file sharing?

Could someone help me setup local file sharing?
from moncharleskey@lemmy.zip to linux@lemmy.ml on 10 Jul 18:43
https://lemmy.zip/post/43646931

Hello, I’ve been working towards fully migrating to linux, but this is one issue I’m having a hard time with. I have a couple of folders on a storage drive that I share on my local network to stream movies and TV, but I can’t figure out how to do it in my Linux install. I’m running Linux Mint 22, have installed Samba, and have tried a few different walkthroughs with no success. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this set up?

Thanks for your time!

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floo@retrolemmy.com on 10 Jul 18:58 next collapse

It would be helpful to know what you’ve already tried and what went wrong. The more info the better.

moncharleskey@lemmy.zip on 10 Jul 19:20 collapse

Well I tried the UI approach of right clicking the folder and going to share options, which is when I was prompted to install Samba, but there is warning that states “The permission for <folder> prevent othersl users from accessing this share”. I did some digging on that error, and everything I came across basically said that wouldn’t work. My next attempt was modifying the Samba config file, I added

[FolderName]

path = (file directory path I see in properties, /media/username/lettersandnumbersfordrive?/FolderName)

browseable = yes

read only = yes

guest ok = yes

create mask =0775

As instructed by a tutorial I found. When running testpram I don’t get any errors, but I’m not seeing the folder in VLC like I do when sharing from Win10. That’s as far as I have gotten. If there’s anything else that I can provide please let me know, and on that note, the drive I’m sharing from is NTFS if that has any impact.

Thanks again!

floo@retrolemmy.com on 10 Jul 19:45 collapse

In your Samba config file, when you’re specifying a share path, after FolderName, you need to put a final /

moncharleskey@lemmy.zip on 10 Jul 20:22 collapse

So I added the forward slash and now the folder shows up, but it’s asking me for login credentials now. I thought “guests ok = yes” would handle that but apparently not. Any suggestions?

FauxLiving@lemmy.world on 10 Jul 20:42 next collapse

Adding

[global]
map to guest = bad user

to smb.conf and restart the service.

If that doesn’t work there are a few other suggestions in the thread.

floo@retrolemmy.com on 10 Jul 21:56 collapse

Use whatever username and password you have set up for an account on the host computer.

plinky@hexbear.net on 10 Jul 19:03 next collapse

i know i will be like a meme of “answers completely different question”, but jellyfin does this natively, so if you strictly need this for movies/media, maybe try it out?

dil@lemmy.zip on 10 Jul 19:19 next collapse

Yeah use some sort of selfhosted mediashare, imo runtipis the easiest way to get it up and running, becuase im lazy and it has a one click installer, auto uodates, backups, etc.

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moncharleskey@lemmy.zip on 10 Jul 19:24 collapse

All I’m trying to do is play videos on Xbox/Roku, so whatever makes that happen easily is fine with me for now. I would like to build a stand alone media pc/NAS later but for now just want to keep hosting it on my pc.

plinky@hexbear.net on 10 Jul 19:32 collapse

ah, dunno how good their app is on xbox, it was abandoned for a long time :( roku should work fine though

moncharleskey@lemmy.zip on 10 Jul 20:26 collapse

It works (VLC on Xbox), but it’s definitely not that great.

plinky@hexbear.net on 10 Jul 23:03 collapse

I meant jellyfin on xbox, they seem to have some version of it. If it works, then you are kinda golden, install jellyfin on pc, add a folder with movies as a library, and install clients where you need them, and it would work (if your ip on home network is fixed that is, would need some router fixing if not, cause it talks by ip:port to server (your pc)). Think jellyfin fixed sketchiest issues with transcoding, so it kinda not that involved on server side

bacon_pdp@lemmy.world on 10 Jul 19:06 next collapse

Well did the samba user account (used to connect to the samba share) have access to the files?

nfms@lemmy.ml on 10 Jul 21:23 collapse

You might have answered the OP question, and a long standing mine as well. Gonna check this up on my setup

M4st3rSh0e@lemmy.world on 10 Jul 19:28 next collapse

Just ran into this the other night myself. Turns out I didn’t have the path the correct way, cause samba is picky. My original config was set up with the path = /home/user/Public but I had to change it to path = /home/user/Public/ You’re path in your reply looks like it’s missing that / at the end. After you update, don’t forget to restart the service.

moncharleskey@lemmy.zip on 10 Jul 20:25 collapse

Well that made it show up thankfully, but it’s asking me to log in. Any idea how to handle that? I don’t want it to ask at all so family members have ready access.

normalexit@lemmy.world on 10 Jul 19:34 next collapse

Can you share your smb.conf?

John@discuss.tchncs.de on 11 Jul 12:07 collapse

If it is for Media Files only UPnP could be an alternative to smb.