Turn your Mac into a SMB File Server - Mac NAS // 4K TUTORIAL
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- This tutorial covers how to turn your Mac into a home NAS to share files on your local network with no extra hardware!
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It’s so wild to me that not only are all users Home folders shared by default but the whole file system is shared. That feels like a big security risk.
Do you have any videos on how to configure MACOS with multiple external drives and set for software RAID setup to join up with this video for a Mac mini File Server Setup?
This is great as I have an old 2013 MBP that I’m replacing with a new MBP. If I can repurpose my old MBP for file storage, that would be awesome. I have a ton of home videos and ripped DVDs that currently stored on an external drive that I manage using the MacBook“TV” app so that I can access the them via Apple TV. I’ll have to play around with this some more. Thanks!
I already have NAS for cloud storage.
Maybe I will set up Mac mini as computing cloud.
Its great to run PC OS on iPad!
Thank you space Rex.
Great video! Is there a way to make these files on the Mac accessible over the internet?
By chance do you know what version of the SMB protocol is used on Big Sur? Any issues when accessing from a hardened Windows machine?
hi mate thank you for this very useful video it was just what i needed. and it workkkkkkkkkkked...............
when i click cmd n, there is no network on the left column
I personally don't love this idea but i can understand the reasons behind as there are people who are versed in mac os that would rather work off of a mac mini and just add drives to the system and so on.
Sick thank you for the tutorial :D
Thanks for the video. I assume that you can not hook up a bunch of drives to a Mac Mini, and run those drives in a RAID 5 or RAID 6, correct?
what is "Jumbo packet" at 1:09
Great video man 👌
thanks a lot. very helpful!
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I tried to access my Mac from iPad app but I always get an error message, I tried to do like you did form your Mac but well in Files app and no success. Pinging does work
I tried doing this with my iPad and Iphone, but I get the error "Socket is not Connected".
Did I miss a step or a setting? Any advise will be appreciated.
Thanks a lot in advance!
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Can I use this to share a HDD among two macs. Please assist!!!
Great tutorial. Any chance do you know who I can connect to my Mac mini for file transfer from my iPhone, and not on my home network... so away from home. Trying to make my Mac mini a cloud storage for my business.
I am no expert on how security, so I do not know how safe/unsafe it might be, but this is what worked for me:
1: Make a really strong password to increase safety.
2. Enable “File sharing” in system preferences and selecting folders to share
3. Find your Mac´s IP address in network settings in preferences
4. Setup port forwarding to that IP address. Port 445 worked for me
5. Find your routers public IP address (google “what’s my ip?”)
6. On your iPhone, go to Files app, tap “Connect to server” enter your public IP, port, then your Mac´s username and password. It would resemble this:
12.123.123.123:445
Please comment back to me if any steps were unclear!
Do you happen to know whether Spotlight works over SMB?
Hey we lost power briefly (we think) and our router reset. Might want to verify your pi is operating correctly
Everyone don't worry the offsite backup is safe
How do I access files the server if I’m on my laptop out the house?
how can you remotely turn on the macbook in the event it crashes? 🤔
This costs a few dollars, but you can have the charger for your MacBook connected to a smart switch, which you can turn off and back on from an app on your phone. I know there is a way to turn a pc on via “Wake on LAN”, I think, but I have not seen anyone do this with a Mac. I am not saying it is impossible, I just have not seen it yet.
I have an old mid 2012 retina mbp so I tried this but it won't allow me to check the tick on the file sharing box for some reason can someone help?
Hi, that was a really great video, cleared a lot of the concepts I was confused with. I just have a basic question which I think I am overthinking it. So the question is, if we are replacing the Mac itself as the server, and we transfer every single thing to the new device with time machine, other than setting up the same permissions again, is there anything else I would have to worry about? I don't want to mess up the data and access to the server of course. Thanks in advance.
How to sharing internet data ?
What steps should I take to be able to use this outside my network?
Setup a VPN server. You should NOT open up the SMB port as it is not safe
@@SpaceRexWill Does a strong password help?
what kind of SSD is in there buddy?
This is fine when its mac to mac, but try connecting a Windoze to it, then you in instability territory, that is if you can actually get a connection in the first place.
from my MacBook Pro to another MacBook using file share is quite slow on my enveroment . wifi and lan is fast windows to Mac transfer over lan and wifi is fast . not sure what's going on between ,Mac to Mac
MacOS is not great at SMB, it can end up being fairly slow though still should saturate a gig connection
I’m trying to do this but also have some family members get to the files from outside the LAN. How would I do this?
Best to use a cloud service in that case
How do I get my Mac mini to have high speeds like this? Does it have to be over ethernet??
It should be over Ethernet. Ethernet is most likely to be the fastest and most reliable solution. If your Mac Mini has an HDD, swapping this out for a SSD will also increase read/write speeds.
@@johannespettersen isn't wifi faster than 1GBPS ethernet port??
how to access smb from anidroid mobile
Hello I've followed the steps and I'm getting extremely slow speeds of about 7MB/s , I'm using ethernet to a network 1G switch in both macs, any ideas?
2:39 Spelling can be hard.
Question on slow speed: My SMB speed is 10MB/s to 20MB/s. Why? My wireless Access point is 1.7GB/s. But SMB speed is so slow. Testing speed between MBP M1 Max and MBA M2 over fast wifi. Any idea? Thanks in advance
That’s just WiFi. 20 MB/s is 200 mbit internet. Even with ‘fast’ wifi there is a ton of dropped packets that have to be resent.
@@SpaceRexWill Thank you for the reply!! But I am still confused. I know my WiFi speed is way faster. For example, if I simply test my Internet speed over just wifi (Google Speed Test), I get around 500MB/s down/up. Meaning that if it was just wifi, it would also be limited to 20MB/s.
Using the same WiFi to a cheap WD MyCloud HDD gives me like 75MB/s. But 12MB/s between two high end macs doesn't sound right.
And AirPlay is way faster than via SMB between the same two Macs. Maybe some sort of on the fly encription is happening that slows speed down
The reason airdrop is faster is it’s connecting the two macs directly together, not going over your WiFi network
Can I access this server from my iPad over the internet? Like a DAVserver?
you will not want to open this service up on the internet. What you can do is use a VPN server to connect back securely
@@SpaceRexWill Do you have a tutorial on using a Mac as combined VPN and file server? I plan on buying a 4TB disk for my Mac Mini and using it as a private “cloud storage” which i can access remotely on my iPhone.
I have bought the 4TB SSD, setup the Mac for remote SMB, and I can confirm that it does work!
I am no expert on how security, so I do not know how safe/unsafe it might be.
This is how I did it:
0: (optional, but recommended) Make a really strong password to increase safety.
1. Enable “File sharing” in system preferences and selecting folders to share
2. Find your Mac´s IP address in network settings in preferences
3. Setup port forwarding to that IP address. Port 445 worked for me
4. Find your routers public IP address (google “what’s my ip?”)
5. On your iPad, go to Files app, tap “Connect to server” enter your public IP, port, then your Mac´s username and password. It would resemble this:
12.123.123.123:445
Please comment back to me if any steps were unclear!
hi, i shared some files to watch on Tv with VLC. but keeps me asking for smb autentication. user and password. trying everything and nothing works. can you help me please?
If you are trying to connect with a windows machine you need to change the way the passwords are stored (shown in the tutorial)
@@SpaceRexWill I'm tryng to open ON VLC on my TV. So, it's android. And share from my MacBook. Thank you sir 🙏
I've found that regardless of what the device is, if it's not another mac, it requires the Windows password thing turned on. This goes for when I used VLC on my AppleTV 4K and for using apps on my iPhone. Problem I'm having now is that some external hard drives show zero content on them.
I don’t know this, I don’t know that, I am not expert…. How come are you sharing this video then with very limited knowledge
He’s letting you know that he is not the be all end all solution to every tech aspect, that some things are over his head atm and if you wanna learn more you should research. The topic he’s speaking on, how to make smb server, he’s got it nailed down.