Samba Share external hard drives

Sheldon25

Hi everyone, I apologize if I am not in the correct spot.

Raspberry Pi 3
Using official Power supply, i believe 2.5 amps
Retropie 4.1 ( Can't remember if any other number after, am not in front of my pi now)
Built from retropie Image 4.1

I have a raspberry pi 3 running the latest version of retro pie, I usually update my scripts weekly and install the updates.
Is there a way to have an external hard drive auto shared. That way, when I go to my device on the network using my pc/mac I can view the hdd/flash drive and modify files as needed. I have looked through the smb.conf file in /etc/samba and do not see any options that would allow this to happen. I know this is possible in Openelec. Any advice would be greatful. I hope this makes sense. Thanks for reading.

mediamogul

@Sheldon25

You just need to add the entry yourself to the smb.conf file and then reboot. An example would look like:

[external_hdd]
comment = external_hdd
path = "/path/to/external/hdd/mount"
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force user = pi

Sheldon25

@mediamogul Thanks, Will give this a try when I get home.

Sheldon25

It worked. Thanks again.

mediamogul

@Sheldon25

Not a problem.

Aenima

Thanks for the help I got my USB HDD to be listed and accessable via my windows pc. the problem I'm encountering now is that the write speed to the hdd is only ~2mbytes/s . I wonder if there is way to fix this, this cannot be the maximum speed of the disk, something must be restricting or slowing down the transfer rate? thanks in advance.