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Configuring the samba server and having it use the attached 2,5″ HDD was actually pretty easy.

Step 1: Mounting the harddisk

From http://mein.homelinux.com/wiki/linux/mounten I learnt how to add the attached harddisk to the fstab. blkid gave me the UUID of the disk (which I had previously partioned and formated with gparted), so I just had to a) create a directory /media/storage, b) set the access rights with chmod 777 /media/storage and add the following line to the fstab:

UUID=b06c9eb6-7cc3-429b-9176-44896e712319 /media/storage ext4 auto,defaults 0 2

Step 2: Installing samba

sudo apt-get install samba installed samba, but not smbpasswd. A quick sudo apt-get install samba-common-bin fixed this.

After I had created a „bananapi“ user on the machine I added this account to the list of samba users with the command smbpasswd -a bananapi. I then took the sample configuration for the /etc/samba/smb.conf from https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/Einfache_Samba_Freigabe_unter_Debian and rebooted the machine.

From my Windows machine I can connect now to \\bananapiip\public and use it as a samba server. When copying a 1 GB iso image to the \public share I got an avaerage of 35 MB per second.

Remarks 2020-06-06:

[global]
workgroup = smb
security = user
map to guest = Bad Password

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browsable = no
read only = no
create mode = 0750

[public]
# chmod -R 777 /home/uwe makes it publicly accessible
path = /home/uwe/
public = yes
writable = yes
comment = smb share
printable = no
guest ok = yes

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Since the case is pretty much complete now, it is time to take a look at the software. I finally decided to run Raspian on the PIs and Lubuntu on the Banana Pi. While there may be other (maybe even more suitable) OSes available I think is the best starting point for my project. The Banana Pi is equipped with Lubuntu.

After booting the Banana Pi I switched to the German keyboard layout (unfortunately the corresponding GUI is horrible). Afterwards the usual apt-get update and apt-get upgrade took care of software updates.

The next steps are the configuration of a static IP as well as the installation of the SSH demon and samba.

EDIT

I just learnt about Bananian which is based on Debian 7. It does not provide a desktop environment, so a 2 GB SD card is said to be sufficient. Since I just want the Bananapi to act as samba server all the Lubuntu features are pretty irrelevant for me.

It also has a sshd running

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