Samba NAS
dianlight/hassio-addons
12.5.0-nas
Samba NAS shares a Home Assistant disk over SMB/CIFS for access by other devices on the network.
Facts about this add-on
- Security rating
- 1 / 8
- Ingress
- no
- Maintenance
- very lively – several changes a month (30 changes/year)
- Version
12.5.0-nas- Last change
- April 30, 2026
- Repository
- dianlight/hassio-addons
- Project
- github.com
- Architectures
- armv7, aarch64, amd64
How this rating comes about
Home Assistant calculates the rating itself: every add-on starts at 5, and each right it asks for or gives up moves the number. The same calculation runs here, on the configuration the add-on ships.
| Starting value of every add-on | 5 |
|---|---|
| Uses the Home Assistant login | +1 |
| Images are signed | +1 |
| Asks for far reaching rights (SYS_ADMIN, SYS_MODULE, SYS_RAWIO) | -1 |
| Has full Supervisor rights (role: admin) | -2 |
| Shares the network of the host | -1 |
| Has full hardware access – that alone sets the rating to 1 | – |
| Result | 1 / 8 |
A high number does not mean the add-on is good, and a low one does not mean it is dangerous – a backup add-on has to reach far into the system to do its job. The number says how much it is allowed to do, and the list above says what exactly.
What the add-on is allowed to do
- Full hardware access
- Uses the host network
- Extended rights: SYS_ADMIN, SYS_RAWIO, SYS_RESOURCE, SYS_MODULE
- Supervisor role: admin
Installation
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Add-ons → Add-on Store, and add the repository https://github.com/dianlight/hassio-addons through the three-dot menu.
- Reload the store and open Samba NAS.
- Install the add-on and wait for the first start.
- Check the rights the add-on asks for before you start it – they are listed above.
Add repository to my Home Assistant Open the add-on directly
Both links go through my.home-assistant.io and open the store of your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Home Assistant integration
- MQTT – The add-on uses this integration