Can someone please help me in setting up this samba share?

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I just used Mac as an example, I shouldn’t have. I finally got the add on to work. I can connect to the external hdd through samba on iOS and my pc. But I can’t on my android tv. I was wondering if it’s because the hdd is ext4 and the androidtv doesn’t read ext4

Thank you

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What did you have to do to make it work? We are curious now. :wink:

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I want my pi4 to my nvidia shield Plex server

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I am not sure what exactly you mean by the above statement...

Are you stating that you have a storage device connected via USB to a RPi4, and would like that storage to be accessible to the AndroidTV box?

Or, are you trying to plug in a USB drive directly into the Nvidia Shield Android TV box? If so, how does the RPi4 factor in?

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The 1st one lol

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The Android tv would only have to read an ext4 drive if it’s directly connected by usb.

If the ext4 drive is connected by usb to a computer running a samba server (and the hard drive is mounted and has a file system the computer is capable of reading/writing to itself), the Android tv would need a samba client to connect over the LAN to the hard drive.

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https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/shield-tv/9/381618/shield-tv-pro-cannot-mount-smb-share/2864034/

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What does the Android TV need for accessing a "server"? It's probably not CIFS (Samba). Plex? DLNA?

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Smb

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Smb means Samba., as you said. Is there a user and password setup on the server for the TV box? The Guest account might not be setup for write access. Can you copy a file from MacOS or Windows box to the server?