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Samba NAS — Session Config (rayserver)

Deployed on rayserver (Ubuntu 26.04, 192.168.50.98) for three drives.

Shares

Share Mount Point Drive Filesystem Size
media /mnt/media SanDisk Extreme 1TB (USB SSD) exfat 932G, ~54% used
storage /mnt/storage WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM HDD (WD10EZEX, SATA) ext4 916G, ~1% used
wd-passport /mnt/wd-passport WD Passport 2.7TB (USB HDD) ntfs-3g 2.8T, ~31% used

Speed Benchmarks

Drive Read Write Connection
NVMe boot (WD Black SN530) NVMe (fastest)
sda (SanDisk Extreme USB) USB 3.1 Gen2 10Gbps
sdb (WD Blue HDD SATA) ~192 MB/s ~156 MB/s SATA 3
sdc (WD Passport USB) ~54 MB/s ~49 MB/s USB 3.0 5Gbps

sdb is ~3x faster than sdc due to direct SATA vs USB bridge bottleneck.

smb.conf (/etc/samba/smb.conf)

[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = rayserver
netbios name = rayserver
security = user
map to guest = Bad User
guest account = nobody
server min protocol = SMB2
client min protocol = SMB2

[media]
path = /mnt/media
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = yes
force user = ray
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777

[storage]
path = /mnt/storage
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = yes
force user = ray
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777

[wd-passport]
path = /mnt/wd-passport
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = yes
force user = ray
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777

Client Access

  • Windows: \\192.168.50.98 or \\rayserver
  • macOS: smb://192.168.50.98
  • Linux: smb://192.168.50.98/
  • No password (guest access, trusted LAN)