Nextcloud Installation - Part 7 Nextcloud External Storage Support (SMB/CIFS)

Configure external storage SMB/CIFS for nextcloud.

Command to install smb client :

sudo apt install smbclient

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[sale]

Thank you for this! Just for some odd reason my IP 192.168.0. 5 would not work but the name of the server "server2024" worked.. very strange but hey it works!

[dnadna]

Maybe you can help me, I can only open mp4 files on my host machine. I can't open mp4 files on any of my network devices.

[jeredferrin]

Thank You, Very helpful

NC document was not helpful.

[Hamid.Ghaderi]

nextcloud external storage authentication failed login-credentials, save in session

[prrar]

Thank you so much for your tutorial. I’ve watched all the videos and finally could install Nextcloud fresh without any errors or warnings. I’ve migrated from the TrueNAS app to a clean one thanks to you.

[rkbest]

Great video! Is this method same as using Linux mount with fstab? I am also using truenas share but I have failed every time when it comes to permissions and nextcloud aio being able to write to the nas directory .😢

[teknisisotoy]

for nextcluod in snap, how to add smbclinet?

[genshinimpactjoki]

can we make SMB external storage as private folder for each user? i see some documentation suggest to use $user on Remote subfolder, but i think thats not work. or maybe we have to do something on nextcloud or the truenas?

[MangustaMG]

Thanks for the video. I managed to install SMB support and get it working like you. There are, however, some concerns. It looks like something isn't working well with permissions, and it seems very non-performant (slow). When adding file->editing from NC, I got quite erratic behaviour. I had full access control from the Windows SMB side, but NC seemed to lock out files it actually owned. I really don't think the permissions/access control thing is working well here.
I had a lot more success simply mounting an NFS share within NC (Ensure the user:group permissions are correct though - You need to add your username to the www-data group, AND add www-data user to the users group).
Beware : I have discussed this a lot on the NC forums, and everyone there advises to NOT undertake any NFS/SMB remote change kind of operation (changing/deleting content outside of NC control) - It's just not designed for this sort of thing apparently and could result in data loss. They ALL encourage the use of WebDav (which I couldn't get working)

[frankyvee]

I'm running NextCloud on TrueNAS Scale server. How do I install SMB Client on NextCloud portion? Since TrueNAS already has it's own SMB client. I have been stuck with this issue for months now.

[SunServerX]

Hi, thanks for the Video.

I have a small issue, Can we share the external storage like internal storage? create share link of our file?

[Guavaya]

Please talk about any of this; nextcloud office, onlyoffice, or office online. Thanks

[rentacowisgoogle]

When I try to enable the external storage app I get an error...

"Error: This app cannot be enabled because it makes the server unstable"

Any ideas? Some posts online mention that it might be a bug with the latest version.

[yougoo]

How can I access that window to input the commands? 02:53

[minibotpc]

Im on Debian and when i try to install SMBCliant, the process isn't anywhere near as long as yours... its literally a few lines of code and its done. Ontop of that, when i try to restart Apache2 it says the service apache2.service not found. Any help with this? Thanks!

[Cerphentos]

Hi! great video, is there any way to make this external storage folder as the root folder? i want to save everything in the external drive so it's a bit tiresome to enter an additional folder everytime i access nextcloud.