Accessing attached HDD from another machine (RPi)

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Hi. New to Volumio - installed and updated to V2.575. The Volumio installation is physically inconvenient to reach so I need to add and delete music files over wifi. But I can’t access the HDD attached to my Volumio RPi via another RPi device that I operate from my desk. My Windows machine can access Volumio which gives me a work-around but I’m trying to keep my business and entertainment worlds separated. With RuneAudio I could easily access the files on the HDD from another RPi or Windows…

My hope is that RuneAudio came with a default setting and maybe I could find and change the Volumio counterpart. Anyone else ever encounter this? Maybe an android file manger app would work but they have their own set of downsides.

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Presumably you have set up your hdd as a Samba share, since you can access it via Windows. There is no reason why another RPi device with Samba installed can’t access it in a similar way.

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Thanks for reply. Samba is installed on the desktop/control Pi. I purged and reinstalled to make sure and same status. I did find a post from three years ago with similar problem:

https://forum.volumio.org/volumio-access-usb-drive-network-t4642.html

Suggested fix was to edit samba file on the Volumio/object Pi. I will give it a try when I get a chance to retrieve the player. Still perplexed that Windows can access but Raspbian can’t while both can access Rune.