Samba

When you want a to make a drive available on the network, Samba is a good solution that works with most other operating systems.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install samba smbclient

Check if the service is running with

sudo systemctl status smbd

Update firewall to allow Samba connections

sudo ufw allow 'Samba'

Shares

Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf

sudo vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

Add a section for each share

[Home]
   comment = Camera Feeds
   path = /media/account/CAMERAS
   guest ok = no
   browseable = no
   create mask = 0600
   directory mask = 0700

Then restart samba

sudo service smbd restart && sudo service smbd status

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-set-up-quick-and-easy-file-sharing-with-samba/

Allowing "Guest" will not require a password. Anyone on the local network can connect to the share.

If you want to use a standard user account to connect to them, you'll need to assign a samba password to the account:

sudo smbpasswd -a account

It's possible to configure the shares via finder. Right click on the folder / drive and go to either "Properties -> Sharing tab" or "Local Network Share". This is useful when testing a setup. However, these settings will not persist across reboots.

See Also

https://linuxhint.com/share-folder-on-local-network-with-ubuntu/

Backup Configs

sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.orig
sudo cp ~/previous/system/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf 

sudo /etc/init.d/samba reload

Mounting

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.234/data ~/shared-drive

Or, in finder / files browser use:

Other Locations -> Connect to Server -> smb://192.168.1.234

fstab

//192.168.0.39/shared_data /mnt/samba cifs username=myusername,password=mypassword 0 0```

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-mount-a-samba-shared-directory-at-boot  
How to mount a Samba shared directory at boot - LinuxConfig  


### Credentials

If you have credentials that you need to specify, this works, but is not ideal because credentials end up in cli history

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.100/share /home/user/mnt/smb -o username=admin,password=password

TODO: currently credentials file path is not working

Create a credentials file instead:

micro ~/.credentials

Add specifications

username=target_user_name password=target_user_password domain=domain

sudo chown account: ~/.credentials sudo chmod 600 ~/.credentials

sudo mount -t cifs -o credentials=~/.credentials //192.168.1.100/share /home/user/mnt/smb

https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/linux-mount-smb-share/


## Troubleshooting

sudo apt-get install smbclient

smbclient -L //server/share -U username