Samba Share \root?

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I have the Samba Share add-on installed, and can browse the numberous shares on my Windows 11 PC by navigating to \192.168.68.75\ or \homeassistant in Windows Explorer.

What I would like to do is map this to a network drive so I don’t have to manually type it in the address bar each time. But it seems I can only map the individual shares (eg \192.168.68.75\config) to a drive. CoPilot tells me I would have to define a root share with the path "" but I think the Samba Share add-on won’t allow that.

What’s the best way to have my HA file system easily accesible from Windows Explorer on my PC?

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Tailscale, zerotier, advanced ssh add-on, among others.

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Are you trying to add a drive letter to windoze file explorer?

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yes. Or get HomeAssistant to appear in the Network display.

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It’s been a few years since I did it, but you can pin the network share folder (even root) in file explorer.

Should be in the right click menu unless win11 messed that up

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You cannot map multiple volumes to one drive in Windows.

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The problem is (I think), the Samba Share add-on doesn’t define root as a share. And I believe to map a network drive it has to be in the format \server\share

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I don’t want to map multiple volumes, I just want to map \homeassistant\ to a drive letter.

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It’s not mapped as a network drive. It’s saved as a pinned folder in file explorer. Absolutely no need to mess with samba settings.

Not at my PC right now, otherwise I’d send you a screenshot

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This is \homeassistant\ but a. ording to your first post you want more?

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Oh, I see. Pin to Quick Access. Yes I suppose I could do that. I would prefer it to be down with the other drives, NAS etc, rather than up in that quick access list, but I suppose it would work.

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Ran that same train of thought 6 years ago. Now I instinctively know HA folder location is at the top.

You’ll feel the same in a couple of months :wink:

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I’m not sure I quite understand what you mean.
I can map \\homeassistant\addons or \\homeassistant\ssl or any of the other shares as a network drive. But what I would ideally like to do is mount \\homeassistant as a network drive, and then I would have easy access to all those shares.

I mean, I know I can just type that in the address bar, and as ShadowFist pointed out, I can pin it up the top. I just wondered whether there was an easy way to map it to a drive letter.

Never mind. I feel I’m starting to waste everyone’s time here! :slight_smile:

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Those look like folders but are separate volumes. They probably are not even subfolders of the root of the drive on homeassistant. I was also confised because homeassistant is the new name of what used to be the config folder.

\\homeassistant is a host
\\homeassistant\config is a volume
\homeassistant is a folder (note the one slash less, this is what you mentioned)

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You need the “Windows for Workgroups” addon for HomeAssistant.

Oh wait, isn’t that Samba?

:wink:

I’m not near my Windows machine to see what right click options or sharing to use either.