How To Create An SMB File Share On Windows Nano Server 2016

I thought it was about time to go back and play with Windows Nano Servers! So in this post, I am going to try and explain how to get a create an SMB File Share running on Windows Nano Server.

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Note: My Nano server is based in azure so some screenshots may look different.
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To start we need to install the Windows Server Storage Package. This package will allow us to create a file share on Windows Nano Server.

We first need to make sure we have installed the Nano Server Package Provider. This can be done by following a previous guide “Installing Packages on Nano Server” if you have not done so already.

Connect to your Nano Server via PowerShell

To install the Microsoft-NanoServer-Storage-Package enter the following command in the open PowerShell session. As my Nano server is set to the UK I need to add the –Culture switch in.

Once the package has installed, you should see a message saying the server needs a restart to complete the installation.

This can be done by typing the following

Once the server has started again, you will need to connect back up to it.

Now we have the package installed we need to create a folder that we are going to share. For this article, I am going to just create the folder on the root of C:\

Now we need to actually share the folder now.

To check that the share has created use the following

To grant permissions on the share we can use the following

If you need to revoke the permission you can use

You should now have a share on Nano Server. This can be very useful when you need to copy files to Windows Nano Server and don’t want to use PowerShell…

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