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Don't let lack of knowledge ever be the reason to stop trying something in homelabs! Honestly for a beginner resource ChatGPT is where I'd go for these kinds of questions. It does a great job explaining what all the terms mean and you can drill down into topics as needed such as permissions and different terminal commands you'll need
Anyways, this link has a decent description of samba:
https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-and-configure-samba#1-overview
So as long as a computer is on the network it could access files stored on this hard drive. It is super useful as a first homelab project
It's what I use for my home server and it's great. You can even use VLC to stream music and stuff via samba.