{"id":239,"date":"2017-05-20T06:50:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T05:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chewett.co.uk\/?p=239"},"modified":"2017-05-21T23:48:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T22:48:06","slug":"create-samba-share-raspberry-pi-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chewett.co.uk\/blog\/239\/create-samba-share-raspberry-pi-cluster\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a Samba Share on Raspberry Pi Cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something I want to do with my Raspberry Pi Cluster is mount a hard drive and share it like a windows share. To do this I am going to set up Samba on a Raspberry Pi.<\/p>\n

Installing the required packages<\/h2>\n

To run samba as a service we need to install a couple packages. Running the following command will install what you need.<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin<\/pre>\n
Configuring Samba<\/h2>\n
To modify samba configuration on a Raspberry Pi you can use its config file. This file is located\u00a0\/etc\/samba\/smb.conf once you have installed the appropiate packages.\u00a0To set up samba to be liking I am going to modify and add a couple lines to the base settings.<\/p>\n
The workgroup setting defines which workgroup the user you will be logging in as will need. By default\u00a0the setting is WORKGROUP but this can be changed to anything required. Here im going to change the workgroup to “bunker”.<\/p>\n
workgroup = BUNKER #customize the workgroup<\/pre>\n
To ensure that only logged in users are able to access the shares I have set the security level to “user”. This method of security validates against samba\u00a0user accounts and is the most basic level.<\/p>\n
security = user #ensure security level is user only<\/pre>\n
The default samba settings will expose the \u00a0logged in users home directory however it will not be writeable. By changing “read only” to no this will allow editing the users home directory<\/p>\n
[homes]\r\nread only = no\u00a0 #allow writing of home dir<\/pre>\n
Setting up a share folder<\/h2>\n
To finally set up the share folder you need to add in the details of the share. Again this is modifying the samba config file as above. Below is an example share folder configuration and an explanation of some of the settings.<\/p>\n
[BUNKER1]\r\ncomment = Bunker Node1 Share\r\npath = \/usr\/local\/bunker\r\nvalid users = @samba\r\nforce group = samba\r\ncreate mask = 0660\r\ndirectory mask = 0771\r\nread only = no<\/pre>\n