More work on the Raspberry PI

I've been working a little more on my Raspberry PI based server. After installing Minidlna server my Raspberry PI server needed some easy way to transfer media files into the USB disk. Sharing the disk with Samba has been, to me, the obvious solution. Also I installed the basis of a LAMP server (Apache2, MySQL, PHP5) for future installation of server applications.

Sharing a disk with Samba

The first step has been so installing samba from command line apt-get

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin

then I edited samba configuration file

sudo vim.tiny /etc/samba/smb.conf

where I added the definition instructions for sharing the USB disk

[usbdisk]

comment = Raspberry PI USB disk

path = /media/usbdisk

browsable = yes

guest ok = yes

read only = no

create mask = 0777

directory mask=0777

public= yes

only guest = no

force user = pi

force group = users

To keep things on the easy-to-use side I set the share for a public “guest” use without asking for passwords. Since my Raspberry server is still in a experimental status I don't have, not yet at least, many security worries to think about.

I tested the configuration with the testparm command

testparm /etc/samba/smb.conf

and eventually restarted the samba service.

sudo service samba restart