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Build your own NAS Storage Server using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W using samba. Step-by-step tutorial for biginers.

raspberrypi-NAS Personal Storage Server

Build your own NAS server using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W using samba. Step-by-step tutorial for biginers.
I will use samba for creating our NAS storage server.

Setting up the Storage device

  • Connect your raspberry pi zero 2w using the ssh command, ssh username@<rpi IP>.
  • Connect an external storage device to the rpi and unmount it using sudo umount <path to the device> if it's auto mounted.
  • Create a new directory and name it storage in the /mnt directory, sudo mkdir /mnt/storage
  • Now mount the device to the directory we created above, sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/storage. (The device path can be different for you)

Edit fstab file

  • Get the UUID of the storage device by using the command: sudo blkid /dev/sda1. (change the path for your device).
  • Add this line, UUID=your_uuid /mnt/storage ext4 defaults,nofail 0 2, to the sudo nano /etc/fstab file.
  • This will ensure the storage is auto mounted and set-up after device reboots.

Install samba

  • Install samba from the bash shell, sudo apt update && sudo apt install samba samba-common-bin -y

Edit smb.conf

  • Before editing the smb.conf file create a backup for the original file: sudo mv /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.bak.
  • Copy and paste the smb.conf file in this repository. (replace the in the valid users line in the file)
  • Create a new user for SMB or use any existing user to set the password for the smb service and add it in valid users in the smb.conf file.
  • Set the passowrd for the smb service using: sudo smbpasswd -a <username>.
  • Change the ownership: sudo chown -R 777 username:username /mnt/storage
  • Restart the services: sudo systemctl restart smbd nmbd

Access Storage

  • Press Win+R and type \\<IPofRPI>\storage. Press enter. (Example: \\192.168.172.180\storage).
  • It will ask for the username and password for the SMB service.
  • You can also access the storage from a browser, type the \\<IPofRPI>\storage in the address field.

My YouTube tutorial

  • Click Storage Server to view a step-by-step tutorial for this project.

Issues

  • For any issues check out the Troubleshoot.txt file in this repository.
  • For other issues you can open up new Issue in this repository.