[TriLUG] Samba on a RPi

[Ken Mink via TriLUG]

I tried creating a RPi3 based TimeCapsule using an external drive. The 
common USB bus for the drive and NIC creates more than just a 
bottleneck. The kernel just collapses under load and panics. I have not 
tried it with an RPi4, but assume the design change has removed this 
issue. I ended up using a BananaPi that had a SATA port. It has worked 
out well.

Ken


On 9/14/20 02:43, Hrivnak, Michael via TriLUG wrote:
> In case you're doing this with a pi 3, keep in mind that the ethernet and
> USB ports are on the same bus, so creating a NAS that utilizes both can
> create a bottleneck. It may or may not be noticeable for your use case, but
> it's worth being aware of in case you do notice slower than expected speeds.
> 
> The design changed with the pi 4 and is no longer an issue.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 6:51 PM Matthew Glassman via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> I have what I'm sure is a simple question and answer, but I may be
>> overthinking it.  I have a Raspberry Pi running Pi OS (formerly
>> Raspian) and have installed Samba on it.  I have an external USB Hard
>> Drive that I want to use as a remote storage device.
>>
>> I have hooked up the USB drive, formatted it with an NTFS system, and
>> created a mount point on the raspberry Pi.
>>
>> I have created shares in Samba (one for myself and one for my wife)
>> and created the required share folder location (in relation to the
>> path designated in smb.conf).  I can mount the samba share with my
>> samba credentials.  The issue I have is that everything on the mounted
>> share is designated as root as user and group.  I can't chmod my own
>> folder that I created even with a sudo issuance.   So is this
>> happening at the mounting of the share (which I believe it is)?  If
>> so, can I still mount the hard drive and still have it give  my perms
>> and ownership for my share and my wife's perms and ownership for her
>> share?
>>
>> So in short..
>> 1. External drive /dev/sda1 is mounted to raspberry Pi at /media/external
>> 2. /media/external has samba shares /media/external/myshare and
>> /media/external/hershare
>> 3. I want to be able to have myshare have me as owner and samba group
>> as group and similar for my wife's share.  Currently everything is
>> root:root 777.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Matthew
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