Setting up a sambashare is probably one of the first and easiest things you can do in a homelab. Give yourself a permanent backup, store your plex movies, record videos for youtube, anything you want to store and share across devices can go on a samba share. It is easily used in windows/mac/linux!
Server:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install samba
sudo mkdir /home/[username]/sambashare/
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
paste at the bottom:
sudo service smbd restart
sudo ufw allow samba
sudo ufw reload
create username and password
sudo smbpasswd -a [username]
In windows to connect:
map network drive
\[ip.of.server]sambashare
check connect using different credentials — input the username and password you just created
In linux edit fstab:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
in fstab at the bottom put in:
//[ip.of.server]/sambashare /mnt/sambashare/ cifs cred=/home/[username]/.smb,vers=3.0,noperm 0 0
sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
sudo nano ~/.smb
inside .smb file:
user=[username]
pass=[password]
check if it mounts properly
sudo mount -a
You should now have your sambashare from a different server mounted as a drive in your /mnt/ directory.
Enjoy!
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