bubblegumpi
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Is there a way to turn my pi3 into a wireless hard drive

Wed Jan 04, 2017 10:26 pm

I have a hard drive plugged into the pi through a USB port, so I wanted to make the pi into a wireless hard drive. The other computer is going to be a windows 10 machine. I found that I can copy files to this hard drive even though it is out of an old windows laptop, I can save new files to it I just cant mess with the existing windows files which is fine I still have 300 GB left on it. I saved a bunch of files to it through email but I want get another pi3 that would just be set up once and act as a stand alone drive where after its set up I can disconnect the monitor and keyboard.

So how would I go about getting a windows machine to do just basic storage of files like .jpgs etc etc?
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Re: Is there a way to turn my pi3 into a wireless hard drive

Wed Jan 04, 2017 11:58 pm

You should run samba/cifs/winbindd on your Raspberry and then it becomes a Windows network drive.
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