Setting up Samba on the NSLU2 Fileserver

Added an new user 'share' with password 'share'

adduser share

This also automatically creates a directory /home/share. Added new directories in /home/share to store the data to be shared by samba -

cd /home/share/
mkdir music
mkdir pictures

mkdir backups
mkdir videos

mkdir /home/share/backups/GiddyKipper
mkdir /home/share/backups/SillySausage

- and changed the owner of the directories to 'share'

chown share:share /home/share -R

Installed samba

apt-get install samba

edited /etc/samba/smb.conf

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = OURHOUSE
netbios name = fileserver

server string = Our Fileserver

security = SHARE

#turn off printing!
load printers = no
printing = bsd
printcap name = /dev/null
disable spoolss = yes

[music]
comment = Shared Music Files
path = /home/share/music
force user = share
force group = share
read only = Yes
guest ok = Yes

[pictures]
comment = Shared Pictures
path = /home/share/pictures
force user = share
force group = share
read only = Yes
guest ok = Yes

[videos]
comment = Shared videos
path = /home/share/videos
force user = share
force group = share
read only = Yes
guest ok = Yes

[backups]
comment = Network backups
browseable = No
force user = share
force group = share
read only = Yes
guest ok = Yes

[shares-admin]
comment = Admin access to the shares
browseable = No
user = share
read only = No
guest ok = No

Added a samba user called 'share' with password 'share'

fileserver:~# smbpasswd -a share
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Added user share.

And checked he was there OK -

fileserver:~# pdbedit -L
share:1001:,,,

Restarted samba to force rereading of the config file (update: actually don't need to do this - config file is re-read every 60 seconds)

/etc/init.d/samba restart

- and then check to see if shares are exported.

The shares 'music', 'pictures' and 'videos' should be visible to everyone - but no writes or deletes allowed:

 

The 'backups' share isn't shown above because it isn't browsable - but it's there readonly for everyone as well if you type the full share name in:

Typing in the full path of the 'shares-admin' share brings up a password dialog box and you have to log in as the samba user 'share' as created above before the share is accessable (full read write access):