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

[Nutul]

Just to be clear....Fat32 is the way to go for Pi attached drives running Moode?

For what we have learned so far, it seems that Fat32 gives a lot less headaches when it comes to sharing them via SMB from a Linux machine...
Linux can cope with a myriad of file-systems (if you had a Linux machine instead of a Windows one I'd suggest Ext4) but you won't be able to use them in a Windows environment; so yes, stick to Fat32.
I think ExFAT also can do; but you better try it.