Setting up Mac Mini M1 to share external HDDs on home network

[Cskarev]

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.
Thanks in advance!

 

[Cskarev]

Here is the error I get when I try to mount one of my external HDDs to NFS Manager…

 

[chrfr]

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.
Thanks in advance!

Just stick with the supported native SMB sharing. It’s more than fast enough for streaming videos. You may need to click the “options“ button in the Sharing system preference and check the box next to the appropriate username for your Oppo device to connect.
I would imagine that NFS sharing may not support NTFS drives on the Mac but I have never tried that.

 

[Cskarev]

I am fine with SMB sharing but when I inout my credentials in the Oppo player, I get an error: Please verify username and password. I checked in Options - I am inviting the credentials correctly

 

[chrfr]

I am fine with SMB sharing but when I inout my credentials in the Oppo player, I get an error: Please verify username and password. I checked in Options - I am inviting the credentials correctly

Did you check the box in that options window to allow the less secure authentication method?
This may also be an issue with macOS not fully supporting NTFS drives.

 

[Cskarev]

it seems the problem is with the Oppo as I managed to connect via my Nvidia shield.
i don‘t see any Box to allow less secure method when I go to Options. Can you give me the full path to it?

 

[pastrychef]

It should be as simple as going to System Preferences > Sharing and enabling File Sharing...

Also, make sure to click on the "Options" button to enable your user.

 

[Cskarev]

Thanks. i found the problem and an alternative solution. My Oppo player works only with SMB v1, so it will never work with the recent versions of Mac OS. I managed to get the NFS manager to work - I had to switch from NTFS file system to Mac OS supported and now everything works with NFS.
Thanks for your support! Really appreciate i.