Samba

Description

Samba is using the SMB protocol to share Linux mounts, which then are accessible and mountable on a Windows computer.

By default, Samba will share all media directories and Docker config directory over SMB on the host. All of these directories will be placed inside whatever share name is specified for SAMBA_SHARENAME on your .env file. These shares are protected with username ds and password ds by default, but can and should be changed on your .env file.

Install/Setup

This application does not have any specific setup instructions documented. If you need assistance setting up this application please visit our support page.

Access Shares

Replace host with your DNS or IP-address of your Docker host.

• \\host\DockSTARTer

Setting Up Additional Shares

You can set up additional shares using an override. To do so, you need to do the following:

• Create a new variable in your .env file that will be the path to your new share on the host e.g. /path/to/your/share and give it an easily recognizable name e.g. SAMBA_xxxx=/path/to/share.

• Create another variable that will be the share name that shows up when you access your shares. For example, SAMBA_SHARE_xxx=AnotherShare

• On your override file under environment and volumes you will you need to copy the following:

environment:
  - SHARE2=${SAMBA_SHARENAME};/${SAMBA_SHARENAME};yes;no;no;all;${SAMBA_USERNAME}

volumes:
  - ${SAMBA_xxx}:/path/inside/container

• Make sure to update what is inside ${} to match whatever you used in Step 2.

• If you want to add additional shares in the future just add a number at the end of the SHARE and just copy and paste everything after the =. Don't forget to update what is inside the ${}.

• Run ds -c up samba to recreate the container and the new share can be generated.

How To Mount Windows Share in Linux

See SMB Mounting.