Andrea Cerfoglia

hi there! im a beginner in the linux world, but to try to learn a bit more and to try to make something useful im currently lookin at a orange pi 4 board in hope to somehow turn it in a NAS/Emby server. i played a little with the Opi4 and it looks promising, the only problem is that it doesnt have sata ports. i can get an extension board to plug in a mPCIE device, and i was planning to use it to connect a PCIE-Sata device. since i still have to buy it, do you have any suggestion? i looked at the JMB585 and the ASM1166 expansion boards, they both have plenty of ports for what i need and the speed its more than amazing, but i would like to know if they are supported. how can i check it? Thanks!

for the past few days i have been trying to set up a samba server but without any luck. my main problem is that after installing and setting up everything i try to connect to the ip of the server (just by typing \\server-ip\ in the explorer path) using a win 10 machine and it doesnt even prompt me to log in using credentials, it just says that is impossible to connect to the server, even tough im connecting trough ssh. I just wiped the machine and installed everything new again but still no luck, im not prompted to log in. (i assume that even without editing the smb.conf file i should be getting a prompt to log in right?) what should i do? i dont think i have any firewall that blocks the service (i dont remember exacly how but i checked with some command the other day) and in my network im able to connect from my phone to a shared folder on my win 10 pc, so im not really sure what to look for, if its a network problem or a config problem.