Sunday, September 9, 2012

Samba

To install samba type command:
         sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin

Create a folder you want to share:
        sudo mkdir /remote_disk

To change the owner of the directory(in this case set owner and the group to be pi):
       sudo chown pi:pi /remote_disk

Add following lines in  /etc/samba/smb.conf to share /remote_disk folder
[public]
        comment = remote disk
        path = /remote_disk
        browsable = yes
        guest ok = yes
        read only = no
        create mask = 0755

To enable security(ask username and password on connect) you have to open /etc/samba/smb.conf file, and uncomment line(delete the '#'):
       # security = user

To restart samba type command:
      sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart