Installation

Install packages:

# apk add samba

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]
   #to allow symlinks from everywhere
   allow insecure wide links = yes 
   workgroup = WORKGROUP
   dos charset = cp850
   unix charset = ISO-8859-1
   force user = username
 
 [storage]
   # to follow symlinks
   follow symlinks = yes  
   # to allow symlinks from outside
   wide links = yes       
   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