I swear. I like your tutorials. In all the years of tutorial watching about rpi, yours are so simple, sympathic, funny and easy to understand. Keep it going bro!

Thank you! You do such a great job of making these videos and giving great instructions. So many people make videos that don't do that and never put the commands or links in the description. Thank you so much for taking them time to make great videos and do it for your viewers.

I checked-out about 4 or 5 Raspberry Pi NAS videos. Your method looked the best and your video was effortless to follow. Thanks so much for posting this. Great job!!!

awesome . the simplest,easiest,most understandable,minimal error occurrence way to build a basic NAS

It worked liked a charm. some struggle doing hdd drives. I did it with USB Stick and it worked well!!! some hdd needs to much power . Great tutorial!!! Thx !!

Just installed by following these instructions. Still good and worked first time. THanks!

love the video , every step is clear and informative

Great tutorial. Everything worked the first time, I tried!

This was an awesome tutorial. Thank you!

Man this is awesome! thanks for the great deep explanation, and also for prepping the documents with all the command lines in it. so now I have this running AND a VPN on the pi :) never though I could implement such thing actually!

Novaspirit Tech great tutorial, found a new purpose for my R-Pi 2 which was just gathering dust, had some old HDD's (200&500Gb) on a shelf too. 👍😉

Thanks a lot... This video helped me transfer files from pi to android device as well as my laptop. Thank you.

You sir are my new god. This was a great tutorial.

DUDE!! You rock man!!!! This video is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

What I am looking for! Great. Thanks.

Great video. Installed one time thru. Excellent directions. Now if I can just figure out how to use it with my planned home security system :)

You are good at tutorial. Thanks for your answer. I will look at the link.

Amizing ans Pretty simple to do! many thanks

SOOOO thank you, i actualy do that in a raspberry py b+ and it works!

Great video. But instead of making a directory and then mounting the hard drives into it, you can just share /media/pi; as whenever you add another hard drive, it automatically gets mounted to /media/pi. The following permissions will have to be changed in The file permissions menu in webmin though- user: root and group: root. There you go.. whenever you plug in a new hard drive, it automatically pops up in the shared folder. Tried this and it worked. Great for sharing multiple hard drives on your network. Cheers!! :D

really helpful vid - thanks!

slowest fast forward EVER :D btw thx for the tutorial, really useful!

Great video!! What software do you use to mix the computer screen with a video feed at yourself? Looks cool man!! Congrats!

Hey! Great work you did there, I really like this series. Could you take this to the next step and show us how to turn a raspi2 into a DLNA streaming server? It could be a great addition to the NAS project.

Great run down!

Awesome videos, wonderful stuff Anyways, question is i want to use only specific destination to be visible for FTP users. e.g., external drive (USB)

Great video! Thank you!

Cool. It worked! THANKS :-)

Thanks man going to try this soon. I have a question. if I have a external hard drive but I am also running other things along the feel server like the torrent daemon video you did, that wont affect the file server itself right? I don't need to make any specific partitions ?

great video! thanks a bunch.

Thanks so much for this tutorial! I got one question before acctually doing this, because i want to share my downloaded tv shows within my house with my familly. But is it possible to add media files through my pc, and acces them from a Smart TV?

You are good youtuber! Subbed

Awsome tutorial, really simple to follow. Thanks! My only question is, how long should webmin take to unpack and install? It's been 15 min and it just sits there saying "Unpacking webmin (1.760) ..." Did I do something wrong? Thank you

That restart session trick.. my god. +1

Commands list: sudo raspi-config sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl apt-show-versions python wget -O webmin.deb prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.760_all.deb sudo apt-get install samba samba-common samba-common-bin sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g sudo mkdir /media/hdd sudo mount /dev/sdaX /media/hdd :)

Great tutorial. I have a pi zero. Same as pi 2. Will that be abel to stream to 2 pc at same time ? I have otg hub and power for hdd. Shud I use a ethernet adapter or a usb wifi dongel ?

Great video!

great video thanks a lot! Do you think this is doable with the new pi 0?

Hi Don great video i am strongly thinking of doing this with my pi that i have ordered. but i have a small question instead of Webmin is it possible to use the FreeNas software?

That's a brilliant tutorial. I would like to know if these shared files can be accessed from my android phone?

This is so good. It's surprising I come back to check it. One thing I keep forgetting is the correct format of the URL for webmin. I must try and remember that in future I should always use 192.168.1.105:10000 The things I forget are https instead of http and the :10000 - which is absolutely needed. Anyway, your instructions always help.

Thank you!

I just got my Raspberry PI 3 yesterday and I would like to do a VPN server and a Nas File server. My question is can you do both roles on a Raspberry Pi or can it do only one role at a time ? I tried to google my answer and I am not seeing what I am looking for. I have bookmarked this video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge on this subject for those of us who are new

wow great tool thanks for this ...

Great. One question. What about an interface to the various devices you'd like to access the NAS with? What you show here is a system that can run by itself with out help from a desktop. Just what I've been looking for. But when I want to watch something on my TV or cell, what app do I use to enter the NAS. I've viewed other videos where they use Plex, but this means a desktop would be involved. Please don't take this as a criticism. I'm really impressed with your presentation..

Nice tutorial in 2021

thanks good stuff

Hello. Thanks for the excellent tutorial! I have successfully set the server but I have 2 crucial questions: 1)I don't see my USB HDD ever going to sleep as it did with OMV server and Windows IoT Samba based server. Is there anything I can do? They say that a HDD's life is dramatically reduced if it's being powered 24/7 and have no reason to disagree with that... 2)How can I create user profiles? Webmin interface seems quite complicated and I haven't got to find how am I going to create ''users''. Many thanks once again!

Hi there, thanks a lot for your videos, by the way could you make an video tutorial explaining how to expand the partition size by line command. I am running ubuntu mate on raspberry and i tried the app gparted but it didn't worked

Awesome video. Thanks. Just replaced my useless pain in the ass Iomega NAS with the spare PI.

#Legend Thanks for all of your help.

You helped me a lot with this !! I managed to adapt your tutorial to setup the NAS file serve on a old PC. Even i am a total linux ignorant. I only have one problem. In the rig i setup i have the Ubuntu server installed and running on a USB drive and the media i want to share is located in 5 hard drives total of 7 partitions, i manager do share all of them, but after restart samba no longer see the files.. the drives unmounted themselves. I am frying my brains out !!! I have to mount manually the drives all the time I turn the server off... any ideas?

Great tutorial! but just wondering hy my pi 2 is getting stuck at Unpacking webmin (1.760) over (1.760) ... any ideas would be greatly appriecated

Very helpful guide, is there anyway to do this on osx

iv got a problem. I installed samba using webmin. Created a folder in media and linked it with the "Directory to share". I activated Gues acess and writable and have no hosts to denie or allow. When i try to "drag and drop" something in my shared folder which i can enter with explorer using windows i cant copy the file into it. It says no permission to write.

This is exactly what I was loocking for! One thing though, instead of attaching a USB-drive I would like to use two SATA-dics mirrored in a RAID. Will that be a problem using a Raspberry since it does not carry SATA ports? Expantion card or what? Also can I setup the RAID configuration from within Webmin? Thanks for a great vid!

2 Questions: 1. Can I use Raspbian Lite (Jessie) for the NAS. Since I don't need the full desktop for the NAS, I was hoping that the Lite version would work. 2. If I can use Raspbian Lite, what would change in the setup? Thanks for the excellent video (and links)

I'm not running my RPi headless so I didn't need webmin. However when I've gone through other tutorials and tried setting my samba up everything works fine until I try to connect to the drive via a windows device, it says I don't have the permissions to access it even though I'm using the credentials I've setup in both samba and linux.

Can you make a video where we can learn how to Mount external HDD's as storage devices with Pi2 or 3 - thanks

hi mate sort off new at this but loved the video im looking at using my raspberry pi as a file server just for storing things like photos and videos i have old drives that i want to use is there a way to pull all the drives together as one big drive like you can using windows server

I have a question for you...what if I had USB flash drives for backup/redundancy purposes? How would I be able to set that up?

which step do I need to repeat to add another usb drive or hdd ??? thank you!!!!

i loved the tutorial,im going to make this as soon as my pi comes. so i use exfat Format..How can i make It? i use exfat because i get some movies and vídeos over 4gb ( fat32 limit) but NTFS doesnt work on my PS4...so um using exfat

Are you using a Powered USB Hub or are you connecting the USB HDD directory to the Pi?

Hi, I liked you video! Congrats! I have a question, Is this NAS work with Apple OS ? Like time Machine and ITunes ?

how do we setup more than one drive for this Nas? also will a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B be able to power 4 drives all at once?

After following this video, which worked perfectly thank you, I shutdown the Raspi and moved it to its permanent location. When it booted back up my windows network found the drive, but none of the media was on it. I re-ran the sudo mount /dev/sdaX /media/hdd command to mount the drive again and it works fine. Do i have to do this each time the power goes out?

Couple of things... I think it's better to mount by UUID rather than /dev/sdx mountpoint. If you're using more than one disk or have more than one storage device connected by USB, the /dev locations could change between boots. You can find out the UUIDs of the disks through the command ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ Which will give you the uuid of each disk and the mountpoint it links to eg... pi@bazbox:~ $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 5 20:07 76b58fb3-8d0d-4084-a071-fa11a31af738 -> ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 5 20:07 86EA-017B -> ../../mmcblk0p1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 5 20:07 ad6203a1-ec50-4f44-a1c0-e6c3dd4c9202 -> ../../mmcblk0p2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 5 20:07 fc527572-c210-4b0a-99bf-dbceb1c4736f -> ../../sdb1 The extra long hexadecimal numbers are all ext4 partitions including two USB drives (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb) the 8 digit hexadecimal number is /boot which is, of course, FAT. NTFS also uses the 8 digit UUID. Also if the disks are going to be permanently connected to the Pi running Linux, you'd probably be better off reformatting them to native Linux filesystems such as ext4 rather than NTFS or FAT. Now I'm not to au fait with terminal applications for doing this, I prefer GParted which is a graphical app for Linux, meaning it can be installed on the Pi but not on a PC unless you use Linux on the PC. Please note: reformatting the disk will wipe all data on the disk, only do this if there's no data on the disk that you want to keep and can't back up elsewhere. If you're going to do this using GParted on the Pi then you'll need a graphical login solution, the least hassle is to install xrdp and use the Remote Desktop client built into Windows, or you can install an X Server to go with Putty (making sure you enable X11 forwarding) though if you run GParted from the terminal, you will need to enter... gksudo gparted ...which will run the program as root, which you have to do.

Great guide!!! My problem is when digit: sudo mount /dev/sda2 /media/hdd because: "Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened. The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command." Please help!!!

Wait... I should insert the sd card that you showed how to make into the raspi and connect internet and power wait 20 seconds or so before looking for a IP? Did you skip that?

Is this applicable if your using Macs (OS X) or do i have to install some other packages?

You certainly missed the step where you tell the pi to mount the drives every time you start it. Other than that, this is a good tutorial.

I strictly followed your tutorial. Every thing seem ok, but I only can read data from mounted USB disk? I found that with the same step, I shared a folder that located on PI (instead of USB mounted folder), I can read/write actually. How can I do to make that mounted folder writable?

Did you see my browse history? I actually was looking for a cheap NAS, and I have a raspberry :D

nice vid, but my raspbberry pi b+ stucks in "unpacking webmin...", i will try using the webmin apt repository.....

hi are you still taking question.... I got it to work but when I restart the pi. lost the mounting I try this but this does not work also sudo mount -t vfat -o uid=pi,gid=pi /dev/sda1 /media/ssd500

Thank you for video, I have a very unusual question. Could I emulate printer with raspberry? (I have industrial PLC which would output only to specific printer, can I make raspberry pretend to be one and store that print to a file?)

Hi, thanks for the vid, altough I run into a wall with the webmin. After hitting "sudo dpkg -i webmin.deb" it gets stuck with "Unpacking webmin (1.760) over (1.760) ..." an nothing further happens. Any ideas?

Hello I followed everything but when I go and click and the share it pops up. Windows cannot access \\Ip address\pi share You do not have permission to access \\Ip address\pi share. Contact your network administrator to request access. Even though I set up the security and access control as you had it

Wat Song Did You Use In The Backround and If Do You Have A Link pls?

Hi this video was really educational...I follow your steps and it works !!! But I tried to do this NAS for our company...We managed 250GB of data but I am using a TB Hard Drive. It is now slow. Well I'm sure the reason that is so slow is the size of the Ext Drive I am using.... Is there something I can do like creating a Cluster Server with several Pi's and make it work?

Hey, great video! Can you help me out ? All set up like you, all working, but when i want to get acces to the folder it denies me for permissions.. checked and all, it should be working good. Any idea ?

Will i be able to watch vids on that?

Does this work with the Pi 1 B

I tried setting up miniDLNA on the newest raspbain on a rpi0-w It tells me that it started but exited. Said Illegal instruction on line 76. Line 76 from /etc/init.d/minidlna just states the start and stop. Im using Piratebox install on raspbian stretch. So how do I resolve this in systemctl minidlna status it will not give detailed error on issue.

What are the speeds you are getting when you transfer the files?

Little late, but shouldn't you set you mount in fstab so it always gets mounted?

Hello i have a question how can i add multiple users to multiple folders on my drive and Limit them to say like 10 GB each? Sorry new to all this and i can not figure it out. Also when i go to cd /media i get a return of pi it's not blank so what i did was create the hdd folder and followed the rest of what you said and it worked. But One thing I'm showing now in the shared folder is a System Volume information folder with 2 files in there what are they? Other thing was whn i try to upload a file it says i don't have Permissions to do this.

I want to use my Raspberry Pi 2 for another project. Will this project work on the first Raspberry Pi with 512 MB of RAM? Great video, keep up the good work.

can i do this and run a private cloud with owncloud on a single rasberry pi or would I need to get 1 rasberry pi for for the cloud and one for this ?

how to mount exfat hdd instead NTFS? thanks, michael

Easy way that still looks like a lot of work actually i was lost on what you talking about and when i use samba it never really works i tried all kinds of ways i could never get it to work and i am a full on linux user and i still can't get samba to work. can you show on how to get samba to work on a linux computer?

A NOOB question, I have installed both the Raspbian and OSMC on to a single 16GB microSD via NOOB, now what will happen if I expand the filesystem in Raspbian, will that cause any problem to the OSMC? I'm on a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B by the way.

Is there a way to acces it outside of your home network?

Can't get access on the shared folder. Settings for webmin are the same as in the vid i.e. allowing guest access, etc. Running windows 7. Keeps telling me that I have no permission to access the drive. Please help.

I did it I have mounted my 1TB internal hdd with a proper sata to usb casing it was working fine, but the issue I find was that after some time th hdd went to sleep and again again I need to reboot the server so any solution for such an issue.

Great video! (as we're used from the excellent Don-video's..) All works.. until the point where I want to access the share.. Permission problem :-( Although configured as in video it asks for credentials and doesn't accept my login.. (and apparently I'm not the only one blocked on that point.. Let's hope that Don (or any other bright-mind) can dig into that..)

Following the tutorial now I am able to see the share (pi share) from my Windows computer, but didn´t show me the content and can´t create files or folders on it. Any idea?

Hey, you did great videos. But I have one problem with N.A.S. Server. I can see the files in the shared folder, but can not write. You have any ideas? I test many of the settings in the file smb.conf. Copy here your setttings of smb.conf, please!

Hey, i can't connect to a files via \\my_ip , if i diognize it it says that Pi does not recieve the data or something . Thanks !