I wrote a quick gist on setting up Samba on Fedora and Raspberry Pi:
https://gist.github.com/jftuga/8046ad3119d24690f5db2eb8992df...
I use this for mapping my $HOME directory onto a Windows computer.
Samba on Linux the Easy Way
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Re: Samba on Linux the Easy Way
#42Once I figured it out, over 20 years ago, I’ve found it trivial since. Though not as simple as sharing on Windows. A friend of mine has been trying to learning Linux this month, and he came to me frustrated, losing his mind. A whole day going all over the place on the Internet, obviously following tutorials he didn’t understand, and installing who knows what, and I asked, did you install SAMBA? He asked, what’s that?…
> reading through the endless ‘blind leading the blind’ user forums (Ubuntu comes to mind)
The first party Ubuntu tutorials are especially bad... It seems like for things like SAMBA and NFS they are at least 10 years out of date. Arch Linux and RHEL docs are a lot more reliable, even if you have to figure out the the Debian/Ubuntu ways to do things when they've diverged
Re: Samba on Linux the Easy Way
#43Once I figured it out, over 20 years ago, I’ve found it trivial since. Though not as simple as sharing on Windows. A friend of mine has been trying to learning Linux this month, and he came to me frustrated, losing his mind. A whole day going all over the place on the Internet, obviously following tutorials he didn’t understand, and installing who knows what, and I asked, did you install SAMBA? He asked, what’s that?…
Idk, I've been using Linux and Mac since the early 00s, and I've recently been running into a bunch of mysterious issues accessing SMB shares from a Windows 11 server. I have docker clients on the linux boxes that use the samba share for storage. Eventually I figured out that didn't work well with sqlite files, so I mapped those to local folders instead. But there are still issues with permissions when the linux clie…
Well, found some logging indicating it was an issue with op-locks, so I turned those off on the server and hoping that helps