Samba

Samba server setup

pacman -Sy samba
man smb.conf
systemctl start smb
systemctl status smb
systemctl restart smb

Create samba user

useradd --create-home user
smbpasswd -a user

Samba server config “/etc/samba/smb.conf”

[global]
server role = STANDALONE
log level = 1 auth_audit:3 
log file = /var/log/samba/%J.log
max log size = 10000
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700

[private]
comment = Private share
path = /share/private
valid users = user
public = no
writeable = yes

[public]
map to guest = Bad Password
comment = Public share
path = /share/public
public = yes
writeable = no

Windows client

net use U: "\\myarch\private" /user:user
net use U: /delete
net use "\\myarch\private" /delete

net use V: "\\myarch\public"
net use V: /delete

Linux client

To install the client software only: pacman -Sy cifs-utils

No-mount access

smbget --user user smb://myarch/myarch/test.txt

Mount share via mount

man mount.cifs
mount -t cifs //host/dir /mnt/host_dir -o user=user,pass=****

Mount share via systemd

Create “/etc/systemd/system/mnt-host_dir.mount” having this content:

[Unit]
Description=Share mount

[Mount]
What=//myarch/Share
Where=/mnt/host_dir
Options=_netdev,username=user,password=******,iocharset=utf8,rw
Type=cifs
TimeoutSec=30

Then:

systemctl start mnt-host_dir.mount
systemctl status mnt-host_dir.mount

Automount

Create “/etc/systemd/system/mnt-host_dir.automount” having this content:

[Unit]
Description=Share auto-mount

[Mount]
Where=/mnt/host_dir
TimeoutIdleSec=300

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target