Looking for a good beginer tutorial for samba

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I try to install a share folder that can communicate with my mac on osmc with samba . I try to install this folder on the same SD card that osmc is. I have tried to follow different tutorials with no good result. Most of them put the folder on external hardrive.
Maybe in my attempt to follow other tutorials, I have mixed stuff. So, first I will like to restart clean samba. Do I just reinstall it to be sure thats like clean install and after that fellow a good tutorial for beginner.
let me know
thank
Max

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Are you planning to use an external USB drive for this new shared folder or still planning on using the SD Card?

Removing and then re-adding samba isn’t going to help if you have been making changes to files that are outside of what were deployed by samba < to the best of my knowledge, I might be wrong.

On a side note, what amount of data are you looking to share? SD cards are usually 8-32 GB, you could get an external USB with about 1TB of space for less that US $100.00

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At the moment I do not plane to add external hard drive. I have a 32 Gb, it is more to share files not to keep it on it. at the moment i more a experiement for me to learn about linux, raspberry pi and network.

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Is it safe to assume that you are using the latest build and have access to the pi via ssh? Did you install samba from the app store?

One noob to another, I can tell you how I installed samba and was able to access the SD card and also what I did to setup my external usb hdd, but if you are having issues accessing the SD card (over samba) then most likely I’ll be running around in circles myself.

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When you put in the IP of the pi, do you see nay shared folders? Can you ping the pi from your mac?

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I think I will erase and restart everything, just to be sure that I did not do unwanted things. If you want to let me know the step from the beginning to install samba and create a share folder, on my SD card that will be good .

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Remove what ever samba application that you installed and delete or move /etc/samba. When everything is clean just install samba from the MyOSMC App store and your home folder /home/osmc will be shared. You then can add the folder you want to share there.