The latest Raspberry Pi 4B comes with a Gigabit ethernet port, up to 4GB RAM and 2 USB3 port. Because of its low power supply, Raspberry Pi 4 surely has the capability of working as an affordable file server to back up and share files from anywhere on your local network. In other words, all your local devices not only can backup your important files to the Raspberry Pi, but also plays movies stored in the Raspberry Pi. You can even plug external drives to it to enlarge the disk space. In this tutorial, we will use Samba to set up a file server on your Raspberry Pi 4.

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The latest Raspberry Pi 4 comes with an option of 4G ram. This truly makes the Raspberry Pi a workable personal portable computer. However, the temperature could go pretty high when it is implementing intensive tasks. The simplest solution would be adding a fan to cool it down, but it makes no sense to let the fan running all the time.

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The following notes are under the official Raspbian system.

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