Samba

Not just for file sharing, but also supports printing and name services. I now make it part of my standard Linux builds within Virtual Box. I can then use VB shared folders or the host OS virtual file systems. (Is this true for Mac OS? Need to test it).

Ubuntu

Some useful links,

• Search on ‘Samba’ at Ubuntu’s documentation site
• Samba, the Community Documentation page

Raspbian

And now I need it on my little pi. Check this out!

I can now mount the NAS drive on the PI, but I need to mount it on a partition, check out clonezilla.

I am having problems mounting the Pi’s shares on my real U22 machine using the smb protocol. 6/12/2022, I found these,

1. https://askubuntu.com/questions/74789/failed-to-retrieve-share-list-from-server-error-when-browsing-a-share-with-nau this mentions smbtree which I installed on the client
2. https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/nautilus-connect.html.en
3. Install-and-configure-samba, 3. Setting-up-samba talks of ufw, which is not on the pi, but iptables is? so, here’s a page on the samba/iptables runes.
4. https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=262123, a thread on firewalls on the pi

Using a credentials file

Here’s a link on credentials files,

1. https://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-Linux-Real-Time-Discussions/Samba-share-using-credentials-file/td-p/3643381

And here’s a LMGTFY on “Linux Samba”