Samba
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
1warn against
Nov 10, 2025first mention
Oct 9, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“have a Samba server that I can use to access my music library on the go if needed, via WireGuard. Honestly, I could not be more happier with it.”
“I use a Raspberry Pi 4 running Ubuntu and Samba as my NAS. It is cheap and reliable.”
Caveats and dissent
“I have been fighting annoying Samba issues with MacOS and a Linux NAS for years”
MacOS and Linux NAS useron “Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]”
Often compared with
1 moved from Spotify to Samba
1 moved from Samba to copyparty
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? 1 mention
- FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued 1 mention
- How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS 1 mention
- My Homelab Setup 1 mention
- 27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates 1 mention
- Spotify increases its US subscription prices for the third time in 3 years 1 mention
Data: samba.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“Samba server to access my things over the network”
“It's really not hard to setup LVM and Samba.”
“pass-through mount to an LXC that runs Samba”
“serving over samba and NFS”
“I keep my music library on a server with Samba installed”
“have a Samba server that I can use to access my music library on the go if needed, via WireGuard. Honestly, I could not be more happier with it.”
“I use Samba with all the safety catches switched off (on one side only) as a go between.”
“I use a Raspberry Pi 4 running Ubuntu and Samba as my NAS. It is cheap and reliable.”
“I have been fighting annoying Samba issues with MacOS and a Linux NAS for years”
“I run openwrt, adguard, unbound, proxmox, jellyfin, samba, qbittorrent and syncthing”