This is actually what I did. I never could get Samba working, so I setup Jellyfin and it’s been a breeze ever since. What an amazing piece of software! I just wanted to access my files, but having them categorized with images, cast and crew, ratings, and even recommended is just fantastic. The Xbox app works fine but it’s basically just a web wrapper, and the cursor never goes away which is mildly annoying, but it’s still a way better experience than the VLC Xbox app.

Thanks for the help!

It’s a good game!

It works (VLC on Xbox), but it’s definitely not that great.

Well that made it show up thankfully, but it’s asking me to log in. Any idea how to handle that? I don’t want it to ask at all so family members have ready access.

So I added the forward slash and now the folder shows up, but it’s asking me for login credentials now. I thought “guests ok = yes” would handle that but apparently not. Any suggestions?

All I’m trying to do is play videos on Xbox/Roku, so whatever makes that happen easily is fine with me for now. I would like to build a stand alone media pc/NAS later but for now just want to keep hosting it on my pc.

Well I tried the UI approach of right clicking the folder and going to share options, which is when I was prompted to install Samba, but there is warning that states “The permission for <folder> prevent othersl users from accessing this share”. I did some digging on that error, and everything I came across basically said that wouldn’t work. My next attempt was modifying the Samba config file, I added

[FolderName]

path = (file directory path I see in properties, /media/username/lettersandnumbersfordrive?/FolderName)

browseable = yes

read only = yes

guest ok = yes

create mask =0775

As instructed by a tutorial I found. When running testpram I don’t get any errors, but I’m not seeing the folder in VLC like I do when sharing from Win10. That’s as far as I have gotten. If there’s anything else that I can provide please let me know, and on that note, the drive I’m sharing from is NTFS if that has any impact.

Thanks again!

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Yeah, I wouldn’t want to do payment processing either. Thanks for the information though, as I haven’t really used Peertube since I don’t use YouTube much.

That’s fair, but the number one complaint about YouTube is the ads, and I do think content creators deserve to be compensated for their time. Perhaps a way within Peertube to donate to the creator?

There’s always the support via Patreon route.

Metapixl and signup was instant for me.

I joined Pixelfed yesterday, the Instagram alternative. I wasn’t really active on IG and haven’t logged in in years, but Pixelfed seems solid. The glaring issue though is that none of my friends use it, so it’s just a personal photo for now, but hopefully that will change.

Okay, so, first off, I really appreciate the comments on this and those that took their time for it. As of now I am connected to my network and everything appears to be working. What’s odd though is I didn’t do anything. I powered it up when I got home, signed in, and had a wifi icon in the bottom right this time, where I found my network and got connected. I had already ran a few shutdown/restarts since installing Bazzite, but apparently this one worked. Now I just have to hope it stays that way. Thanks again!

Also, this was using the built in Realtek wifi on an Asus B550M motherboard if that helps anyone.

How are you ripping from Tidal?