Revision as of 20:57, 7 December 2018

Installation

Install packages:

# apk add samba samba-common-tools

Create a share directory

This will be the directory that's shared to clients. You can create as many of these as you wish.

# mkdir /media/storage

# chmod 0777 /media/storage

Create smb.conf

Alpine provides an example configuration file located at /etc/samba/smb.conf. The following is a simple example to get you up and running.

Contents of /etc/samba/smb.conf

# /etc/samba/smb.conf

 [global]
    workgroup = WORKGROUP
    dos charset = cp850
    unix charset = ISO-8859-1
    force user = username
 
 [storage]
    browseable = yes
    writeable = yes
    path = /media/storage

Note: For each directory share, you'll need to add a subsection to smb.conf

Create a system user and Samba user

Create a user on the system. Create a Samba user. Give both users the same password.

# adduser username

# smbpasswd -a username

Configure the Samba service

Run these two commands to start the service on boot and to start the service right now.

# rc-update add samba

# rc-service samba start

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 = Installation =
 Install packages:
-{{Cmd|apk add samba samba-common-tools}}
+{{Cmd|# apk add samba samba-common-tools}}
 = Create a share directory =
 This will be the directory that's shared to clients. You can create as many of these as you wish.
-{{Cmd|mkdir /media/storage}}
+{{Cmd|# mkdir /media/storage}}
-{{Cmd|chmod 0777 /media/storage}}
+{{Cmd|# chmod 0777 /media/storage}}
 = Create smb.conf =
-Alpine doesn't provide an example configuration file in the package so you'll need to create one. If you have more than one share you'll need to add a subsection for each directory to '''smb.conf'''.
+Alpine provides an example configuration file located at /etc/samba/smb.conf. The following is a simple example to get you up and running.
+{{cat|/etc/samba/smb.conf|# /etc/samba/smb.conf
+<nowiki>
   [global]
      workgroup = WORKGROUP
@@ Line 21: / Line 22: @@
      writeable = yes
      path = /media/storage
+</nowiki>
+}}
+{{note|For each directory share, you'll need to add a subsection to '''smb.conf'''}}
 = Create a system user and Samba user =
 Create a user on the system. Create a Samba user. Give both users the same password.
-{{Cmd|adduser username}}
+{{Cmd|# adduser username}}
-{{Cmd|smbpasswd -a username}}
+{{Cmd|# smbpasswd -a username}}
 = Configure the Samba service =
 Run these two commands to start the service on boot and to start the service right now.
-{{Cmd|rc-update add samba}}
+{{Cmd|# rc-update add samba}}
-{{Cmd|rc-service samba start}}
+{{Cmd|# rc-service samba start}}
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