# Help configuring SMB/External storage **URL:** \ **Category:** ℹ️ Support\ **Created:** [December 3, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/help-configuring-smb-external-storage/5759 "2016-12-03T21:34:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TechTornado](https://help.nextcloud.com/letter_avatar/techtornado/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@TechTornado](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/TechTornado)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/help-configuring-smb-external-storage/5759/1 "2016-12-03T21:34:37Z")
Hello everyone, I’ve tried googling around for the errors and I’m not having much luck. First, I need to connect my Nextcloud VM to my file server over SMB. Host - 10.0.0.5 Share - Images Global credentials - username password (no domain, no subfolders) Error! - Server provided an empty response. Red square, I sometimes get a yellow trapezoid-y square, but this system is not verbose enough to decode what is going on. File Server: Server 2012 R2 permissions allow with the provided local account credentials Tried the Mac File share over SMB, same error with a folder shared in the same way as Windows. Second, since I can’t connect to SMB, how do I tell the Nextcloud VM that it has an 80gb drive? It keeps erroring out with low free space like it still has a 20GB drive. Either case, I need help troubleshooting this issue pronto if I’m to start syncing terabytes of images for friends. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/system/32/29333_2.png) [@system](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/help-configuring-smb-external-storage/5759/2 "2024-09-23T18:24:53Z")
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**Author:** ![wwe](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/wwe/32/72963_2.png) [@wwe](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/wwe)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 10:54am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/help-configuring-smb-external-storage/5759/3 "2024-12-09T10:54:08Z")