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Raspberry Pi as a NAS with Samba - How To
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Walks through installing and configuring Samba on a Raspberry Pi so a drive can be shared over the network; auto-mounting external drives is not covered.
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In their words
Logging into the Raspberry Pi using an SSH, I installed and configured Samba Server using the following guide (All the text is commands used is specified in the Video-notes):
Orpedo on raspberrypi.stackexchange.com, Mar 2014. CC BY-SA.
