Entropy Reduction

Personal log of yet another digital native.

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Purpose

• Expose Tdarr cache for Windows node to participate
• Do above using Samba so that location of Cache didn’t have to change, so that
  • SSD on server was best utilised instead of spinners on NAS
  • Less disruption to existing setup

References

• AskUbuntu.com Q&A
• Samba: How to share files for your LAN without user/password
• Re: Ignoring invalid value ‘share’ for parameter ‘security’
• Samba and User Acount Passwords

Actions

Part 1 - Basic Setup

• Below steps are predominantly taken from Samba: How to share files for your LAN without user/password but recorded here for posterity of exact steps taken
  1. sudo apt install -y samba
  2. sudo vim /etc/samba/smb.conf
  3. Uncomment:
  • interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0
  • bind interfaces only = yes
    1. Append:

       security = share
       guest account = nobody
       [tdarr]
        path = /cache/tdarr-cache
        browseable = yes
        guest ok = yes
       

    2. testparm returned Ignoring invalid value 'share' for parameter 'security'
    3. Apparently security = share isn’t a thing anymore
    4. Attempted to browse to the share on Windows
  • Share seen but unable to go inside
  • The network name could not be found
    1. Refer this article
    2. Mucked up smb.conf
    3. sudo apt remove -y samba samba-common && sudo apt purge -y samba samba-common && sudo apt autoremove -y && sudo rm -rf /etc/samba/ /etc/default/samba
    4. sudo apt install -y samba
    5. sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/backup_smb.conf
    6. sudo vim /etc/samba/smb.conf
    7. Append:

       guest account = nobody
       [tdarr-temp]
        path = /tmp/tdarr-temp
        browsable = yes
        guest ok = yes
        writable = yes
       

    8. sudo systemcrl restart smbd
    9. Worked read-only

Part 2 - Write Access

• Reference AskUbuntu answer
  1. sudo adduser [username]
  • Entered password 2. sudo smbpasswd -a [username] 3. sudo vim /etc/samba/smb.conf

    [tdarr]
     path = /tmp/tdarr-temp
     browsable = yes
     guest ok = yes
     writable = yes
     read only = no
     create mark = 666
     directory mask = 777
     force user = [username]
     force group = [username]
    

    4. `testparm`
    5. `sudo systemctl restart smbd`
    6. This did not work even when mapping drive to enter credentials :(
    7. `sudo chown [username]:[username] /tmp/tdarr-temp`
    8. It worked.
    9. Didn't need mapping of network drive in the end
    

Reflections

• Samba, tricky at first, but fairly straight forward