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Prerequisites

SMB cannot be used to serve media to Kodi clients with this config as it breaks filenames with special characters ⁴⁾, this can be worked-around, but there's no known benefits over FTP

sudo dnf install 'samba'

sudo firewall-cmd --add-service='samba' --permanent && sudo firewall-cmd --reload

sudo systemctl enable 'smb' --now

sudo -e '/etc/samba/smb.conf' && sudo systemctl restart 'smb'

[Music]
    comment = Music at %h
    path = /var/ftp/nas2/Music
    browsable = yes
    guest ok = yes
    read only = yes

The password can be anything here, but recommended not to be an important password

sudo smbpasswd -a 'espionage724'

ro,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,vers=3.0

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notes link to Workstation, but this can be done on Server

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vsftpd isn't specifically required, but these notes expect the shared folder mentioned to already be mounted in fstab

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such as the colon in “Title: The Movie”