Hi all,
I have just bought a Mac Mini M1 (16 gigs of RAM, 256 gigs drive, Monterey OS) and I am still getting used to it (Windows user till now).
Other than the usual stuff of browsing and watching some YouTube, I want to set my Mac Mini as a server for sharing the stuff on my external HDDs (mainly 4K movies and videos) which are currently all formatted in NTFS. I have an OPPO UDP-203 player and I want to create a well working server around the Mac Mini which can handle streaming in 4K.
I have attached my external HDDs to the Mac Mini and I have set up file sharing, SMB activated. My Oppo player „sees“ the smb server, but when I try to log in, I get a error message that my credentials are not correct. Here is my first question - which credentials do I have to use here? My credentials for the Mac account? Full name and password or Username and password, or something else? How can I check the credentials?
My other main question is how to set up NFS server on the Mac Mini? As far as I know, NFS is more stable and can allow better connectivity and speeds, so I want to set it up if possible. I have found an app - NFS Manager, but when I try to mount the external HDDs to the NFS server, I get some strange errors that this is not possible.
I will appreciate all answers and suggestions.
I have just bought a Mac Mini M1 (16 gigs of RAM, 256 gigs drive, Monterey OS) and I am still getting used to it (Windows user till now).
Other than the usual stuff of browsing and watching some YouTube, I want to set my Mac Mini as a server for sharing the stuff on my external HDDs (mainly 4K movies and videos) which are currently all formatted in NTFS. I have an OPPO UDP-203 player and I want to create a well working server around the Mac Mini which can handle streaming in 4K.
I have attached my external HDDs to the Mac Mini and I have set up file sharing, SMB activated. My Oppo player „sees“ the smb server, but when I try to log in, I get a error message that my credentials are not correct. Here is my first question - which credentials do I have to use here? My credentials for the Mac account? Full name and password or Username and password, or something else? How can I check the credentials?
My other main question is how to set up NFS server on the Mac Mini? As far as I know, NFS is more stable and can allow better connectivity and speeds, so I want to set it up if possible. I have found an app - NFS Manager, but when I try to mount the external HDDs to the NFS server, I get some strange errors that this is not possible.
I will appreciate all answers and suggestions.