Adding a USB drive as a Network Share

Configuration
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I have Home Assistant OS running on a Mac Mini. I have a USB drive plugged into the back and would like to configure it as a Network Share so that I can save backups to it. I am struggling though.

Using the SAMBA Share add-on I have been able to create a “usb” folder under “media” and write a test file to it. I can also get to the SAMBA share from my Mac and I can see the folder and the test file. The add-on is reporting the following.
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However when I try to configure the network storage, I keep getting an error. Here is what I am trying to configure the network storage as…

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I keep getting the following error…
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Any help figuring this out would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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HASSIO108 is neither a Fully Qualified Domain Name nor an IP address. Is this your share name?
192.168… is not a share name. Is this the IP of the share host?
A local drive on the host computer, like a thumbdrive is not a network share.

You can use Samba Share to copy the /backups directory to another computer.