[PROBLEM] Samba setup.....Idiot guide required??

[Nutul]

Hello there.....

In another thread....Al (Nutul).... alerted me to the idea of updating Moodeaudio data drives directly from the network
(as opposed to physically moving drives from PC to RPi)
Am given to understand that SMB (Samba) is the way to achieve this???
Am I barking up the wrong tree here??

Samba instructions ( in guide) say :

FILE SHARING


- SMB File Sharing can be turned on in System Config. SMB (Samba) shares named
  NAS, Playlists, and SDCard are automatically created. Each USB disk will also
  have a Samba share created that is named after its Disk Label.

- NFS File Sharing can be turned on in System Config. Access and options defaults
  are provided but can be manually overridden. Each USB disk will have an NFS
  export created whose path is /media/disk_label.

Have switched these ON....including NFS

Nothing appears in MY Computer (or Network) on PC ..... there must be more to setup here???

Is there an idiot guide please????

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Hi,

I warned you ONLY because large collections may take considerable time to update over network shares, as there is metadata, as well as (embedded) images extraction.

The sharing options you describe are what moOde can share over the network for other players to see; what you want, OTOH, is point moOde to a network share on a NAS or a computer in your network, and that can be achieved by "m" => Configure => Library, then pressing the button [create] Music source.
From there you can also scan the network for shares detection.