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,
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,
- 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 - https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/nautilus-connect.html.en
- Install-and-configure-samba, 3. Setting-up-samba talks of
ufw
, which is not on the pi, butiptables
is? so, here’s a page on the samba/iptables runes. - 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,
And here’s a LMGTFY on “Linux Samba”
This was last updated on May 25th 2020, probably to add the comments about the ‘pi.
I am having problems mounting the Pi’s shares on my real U22 machine using the smb protocol and nautilus