I have no support/technical question and have seen the support category. (Be aware that direct support questions will be deleted.)
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Hello,
my hifi device can access folders shared by Windows / SAMBA and play music files from there. I tried to connect to a folder shared by Nexcloud, but it would not connect. A webdav share does not seen to be within my hifi’s capabilities.
Is there any way of making this work, though? I guess NC can not be made disguising itself as a SAMBA server when sharing a folder, can it?
The next best idea that comes to my mind would be installing SAMBA, creating a share and letting NC mount / use this share as a “remote” storage. Since it’s on the same physical machine, this diversion should not cause any great performance issue.
Wold this be a solution to my problem? Or is there some other solution to achieve the desired, I am not aware of?
I’m sorry, but in my post I was not asking for help with a specific app, a program or some configuration. It was a general question meant to gather ideas of how I could achieve the goal. I did not regard these questions as a support request.
What’s interesting about your post is that you felt it was more important to justify yourself than to respond to the post, which actually made a suggestion on how you could achieve an even better solution than the one you have now.
If you want to stick with SAMBA shares, or have to because your receiver doesn’t support Ampache or Subsonic, then I would leave the SAMBA shares as they are and leave Nextcloud out of it. You can still make the existing SAMBA shares available to Nextcloud via Nextcloud’s External Storage app.
And no, Nextcloud cannot serve files via SAMBA; it can only do so via HTTP/WebDAV. Also, files managed by Nextcloud should not be accessed in any other way, and I would not recommend sharing the Nextcloud data folder or parts of it via SAMBA.
