--- title: "Samba NAS" description: "Samba NAS is an app for Home Assistant. It has 2.3k installs sharing analytics and was last updated October 27, 2026." canonical: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/apps/sambanas" url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/apps/sambanas.md" last-updated: "2026-10-22" version: "1.4" --- # Samba NAS > Samba NAS is an app for Home Assistant. It has 2.3k installs sharing analytics and was last updated October 27, 2026. Samba NAS is a Home Assistant app that shares Home Assistant directories and disks over SMB/CIFS. It lets Windows and macOS machines reach the shares by the host's IP address. Settings cover the workgroup, local master browser behavior, a username and password, and the hosts or networks allowed to connect. It can mount labeled disks automatically and share extra disks or partitions by label or id, with filesystems such as ext4, vfat, exFAT, ntfs, xfs and btrfs listed as supported. It is built for Home Assistant OS and runs on armv7, aarch64 and amd64. The app is in maintenance mode, receiving only bug fixes, while a rewrite called SambaNas2 is in alpha. Automatic summary of the docs and configuration of dianlight/hassio-addons. Something wrong, or are you the maintainer and want your own text here? [Get in touch](https://vulpo.app/contact) [Open in My Home Assistant](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/supervisor_app/?app=1a32f091_sambanas&repository_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fdianlight%2Fhassio-addons) Apps need Home Assistant OS. Container and Core installs cannot run them. ## Supports - **Actively maintained**: Its author released or pushed a change in the last six months. ## Setting it up Add its app repository under Settings, Apps, then install and start it. ## Permissions - **Host network**: Uses the host's network directly instead of its own. - **Extra system rights**: Asks for privileged Linux capabilities. - **Home Assistant API**: Can read and control Home Assistant. - **Supervisor API**: Can talk to the Supervisor, which manages apps and the system. - **Sign-in checks**: Can check Home Assistant usernames and passwords. - **Full hardware access**: Runs with full access to the host's hardware. ## Configuration - **Username**: The username you would like to use to authenticate with the Samba server. - **Password**: The password that goes with the username configured for authentication. - **Workgroup**: Change WORKGROUP to reflect your network needs. - **Local master**: Enable to try and become a local master browser on a subnet. - **Enabled Shares - allowed values are: addons, addon\_configs, backup, config, media, share, or ssl.**: List of file shares to make available. Adding a share requires typing its name to add it. The listed values are the only allowed values. The configuration cannot be saved if any non-allowed value is in the list. - **Enable Compatibility Mode**: Enable this to use old legacy Samba protocols on the Samba add-on. - **Veto Files**: List of files that are neither visible nor accessible. - **Allowed Hosts**: List of hosts/networks allowed to access the shared folders. - **Enable Automatic Mount**: Automatic mount and expose all labeled disk. - **List of labeled disk to mount**: List of disks or partitions label to search and share. It is also possible to use the disk id if you prepend the name with id: - **Enable discovered disk log**: Enable the log of found labeled disk. Usefull for initial configuration. - **Configure the mount in media path**: Enable the visibility of moredisk on /media path. - **Enable recyle\_bin on share**: Allow client SO to use Recycle Bin functionality on share - **Enable the use of external WSDD daemon**: Setting this option to true will enable the use of wsdd over internal samba system. - **Enable the use of Netgear WSDD daemon**: Setting this option to true will enable the use of wsdd2 over wsdd. Set to true if you have trouble to see the disk on Windows 11+ ## At a glance - Kind: App - Number: 2.3k installs sharing analytics - Connection: Connection not stated - Upkeep: Updated in the last 6 months - Needs: Needs Home Assistant OS - Runs on: 32-bit ARM, 64-bit ARM, x86-64 - Latest version: 12.5.0-nas, last updated October 27, 2026 - Source: Independent directory, made by the developer of Vulpo. Not affiliated with Home Assistant or the Open Home Foundation. [About these numbers](https://vulpo.app/integrations/about) Last updated 2026-10-22. Source: https://vulpo.app/integrations/apps/sambanas --- - HTML version of this page: https://vulpo.app/integrations/apps/sambanas - Site index for agents: https://vulpo.app/llms.txt - Everything in one document: https://vulpo.app/llms-full.txt - All pages: https://vulpo.app/sitemap.xml