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Install samba in the raspberry pi

The problems I've run into are because you have to install two packages, not only one:

sudo apt-get install samba
sudo apt-get install samba-common-bin

Note: if you don't install the later package samba-common-bin you won't find the program smbpasswd which is critical to create a user. Ok, if you want to have all the files open to the public, it might won't be neccesary.

After this, modify the /etc/samba/smb.conf file to include your own share:

[workspace]
        path = /home/rluna/workspace
        read only = no
        writeable = yes
;       browseable = yes
        valid users = rluna

Then, create a user:

smbpasswd -a PUT-YOUR-USERNAME-HERE

Restart the service:

# /etc/init.d/samba/restart

And you are ready to mount from another machine:

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.4/workspace /mnt -o user=REMOTE-USERNAME-GOES-HERE,uid=LOCAL-OWNER-OF-FILES,gid=LOCAL-GROUP-OF-FILES

Some advices to install in a permanent mount point

Edit your fstab file and add the following:

//192.168.1.4/workspace /your/local/dir   cifs     credentials=/some/secret/file/.rasp_creds,_netdev,uid=LOCAL-USER-FOR-FILES,gid=LOCAL-GROUP-FOR-FILES   0  0

The file .rasp_creds must have the following:

#
# credentials for the raspberry pi shared server
#
user=REMOTE-USERNAME
password=REMOTE-PASSWORD-YOU-SET-WITH-SMBPASS

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