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SMB Share - Help Before I Rip Out What's Left of My Hair :)? (Edit: Solved!)
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I was literally fighting with this these last 4 hours, and here's my conclusion:
What a goddamn mess Samba is. How in the world is it so hard to make this thing work?
I eventually realised that for my usecase
minidlna
would work, at least for a while, and it was amazing how simple it was.This is all I can say about the subject. I am surprised there are no simple ways to setup Samba folders such as a GUI that asks you "what ya wanna share? Oh, okay, you want people to write things on it? Cool! It's working now. Don't forget to check these ports on your firewall, bye!"
Everything has been immeasurably easier on Linux. But holy fuck the Windows' Right Click -> Share is eons better than this :(