Network Sharing with SAMBA

How to start with SAMBA in KaOS.

Samba comes by default in the ISO, to verify it is installed we will use the following command:

pacman -Q samba

That should return the installed version of samba, if not we install it with:

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S samba

To start using samba we must create the configuration file, or we can copy the default one:

sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf.default /etc/samba/smb.conf

Then start the samba services:

sudo systemctl start smbd
sudo systemctl start nmbd

And to start samba with the system:

sudo systemctl enable smbd
sudo systemctl enable nmbd

We already have Samba running. You can see the shared resources in Dolphin -> Places -> Network -> samba shared Resources.

I leave an example of the smb.conf file with few restrictions and sharing a data partition mounted on /media/data:

[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = %h Server
security = user
map to guest = Bad User
load printers = yes
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
dns proxy = no

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
path = /home/dago
browseable = yes
writable = no
public = no

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = yes

[Data]
comment = Data in KaOS
path = /media/data
browseable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes