Samba - Windows Plex server conversion to Ubuntu 20.04

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I finally have my HL-15. The things is exactly what I needed for noise and HDD capacity. I’m currently using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with houston, however I’m having issues connecting to the storage pools via Samba so that I can finally move Plex media server off my windows machine. I’m trying to use the root storage pool. The intention is to clean up the Plex media folders as I move them as I’m going from multiple drives into one pool. If anyone can point me in the right direction it is greatly appreciated

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Houston should detect or tell you if Samba is installed on the system.

It seems you are using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS rather than the pre-built install which ships Rocky Linux.

There is a separate post sharing the detail to get Samba working on the pre-built system

In the thread (which worked for me as I am using Rocky), the cockpit ZFS manager’s settings were changed to reflect what Hutch suggested on the post… As I am not using Ubuntu 20.04, I can not give you the exact details as I don’t know what you have installed/configured on the system.

The key parts is to make sure the Cockpit Manager does not try to add includes as that was a problem with the Rocky system.

Samba does not like the workgroup name being the same as the netbios; these prebuilt machines have the unit’s host name as HL15.

What have you attempted or completed? Or was this post to gather details on how to do it?

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I did read the other article without much luck. However as I’m not attached to any given setup, I found a wonderful TrueNas scale guide on levelonetechs forum so I will most likely be using that for ease of setup and play, as I’m doing this as a hobby and have a month to sort things out.
Thank you though for the link.

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I am sharing some of the steps I used with the default configuration Rocky Linux and Houston.

I am doing a couple more edits, but the overall gist is within this long reply post.

On this thread I am linking I had initial issues with both Samba and NFS.

This reply is between a highlevel guide and the steps that I used to make everything work.

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