Tips on Samba

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

SAMBA File System is a great way to share files among computers in local network (e.g., office or home). You do NOT need a synchronization software. However, if you use SAMBA in office, make sure that the file permissions are as you expected. Some companies make SAMBA file system accessible to everyone!

Docker Images¶

dclong/samba

Mount Windows Samba Share on Ubuntu¶

sudo mount //WINSRV/SHARE -t cifs -o uid=1000,gid=1000,username=winuser /mnt/path

Mount Samba in WSL¶

It is now possible to mount USB media (including formatted as FAT) and network shares with drvfs on Windows 10.

You can use the following command to mount removable media (e.g. D:).

sudo mkdir /mnt/d
sudo mount -t drvfs D: /mnt/d

And use the following command to safely unmount it.

sudo umount /mnt/d

You can also mount network shares without smbfs.

sudo mount -t drvfs '\\server\share' /mnt/share

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2017/04/18/file-system-improvements-to-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux/

Issues¶

I couldn’t mount ubuntu SAMBA share on windows ...

Misc¶

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1865953

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3323966/echo-smbpasswd-by-stdin-doesnt-work

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/How to Create a Network Share Via Samba Via CLI (Command-line interface/Linux Terminal) - Uncomplicated%2C Simple and Brief Way!

https://superuser.com/questions/1109993/accessing-removable-media-in-bash-on-windows/1209701#1209701