External storage - Samba NAS

Third party integrations
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A few days back, I have added an external 5TB WD HDD to HA. I was able to move the data of HA to that drive, for a few days, an exernal system (TeslaUSB) was able to copy files to that drive (590GB), today, nothing. The drive appears in Storage, but not as external storage, just in the upper section of the screen where it shows how much is used by each process.

A few days back, I saw all the folder in \192.168.0.xx on File Explorer in Windows (shared with Samba NAS), today I can’t connect and neither can TeslaUSB. I have restarted HA, no difference. I tried to check in the configuration of Samba NAS, I can’t see any information about paths.

I restarted Samba, and now it works. What can explain such a failure in a few days? Samba is ususaly rock stable, can I check any logs to determine what caused the issue? I cannot afford this kind of instability every few, hundreds of GB of data need transferring every day.

Thanks,
Gaetano.

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I think I have found the cause of the issue in the log:

become_local_master_fail2: become_local_master_fail2: failed to register name WORKGROUP<1d> on subnet 192.168.0.149. Failed to become a local master browser

According to Google, the solution is to disable the Master Browser function in smb.conf. The file cannot be found using SSH Terminal (no samba folder under /etc), but the option is in the Samba NAS configuration screen in HA, so I disabled it.

Is that the right thing to do? Do I need Samba NAS to be the master browser? and if so, how to I prevent the failure to become the Master Browser that appears to have halted the service?